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Divine Conduct, or The Mystery of Providence
Divine conduct, or, The mystery of Providence wherein the being and efficacy of Providence is asserted and vindicated : the methods of Providence as it passes through the several stages of our lives opened : and the proper course of improving all Providences / directed in a treatise upon Psalm 57 ver 2 by John Flavell ...Divine conduct, or, The mysterie of Providence wherein the being and efficacy of Providence is asserted and vindicated : the methods of Providence as it passes through the several stages of our lives opened : and the proper course of improving all Providences / directed in a treatise upon Psalm 57 ver 2 by John Flavell ...
London: printed by R.W. for Francis Tyton, 1678
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Seeing therefore the Events of Providence fall out so opposite to each other upon the Godly, and Ungodly; every thing furthering the eternal good of the one, and the ruin of the other; it cannot but be acknowledged a most important ⟨p. 237⟩case in which every Soul is deeply concerned, whether the Providences under which he is, be sanctified to him or no?
Seeing therefore the Events of Providence fall out so opposite to each other upon the Godly, and Ungodly; every thing farthering the eternal good of the one, and the ruine of the other; it cannot but be acknowledged a most important ⟨p. 237⟩case in which every Soul is deeply concern'd, whether the Providences under which he is, be sanctified to him or no?
For the clearing of which I shall premise two necessary Considerations, and then subjoin the Rules which will be useful for the determination of the question.
For the clearing of which I shall premise two necessary Considerations, and then subjoyn the Rules which will be useful for the determination of the question.
And first, Let it be considered, that we cannot §1know from the matter of the things before us, whether they be sanctified or unsanctified to us; for so considered, all things come alike to all; and no man knoweth either love or hatred by all the things that are before him.