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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.
And from adverse afflictive Providences we cannot know his hatred. If afflictions, great afflictions, many afflictions, long continued afflictions should set a brand, or fix a Character of Gods hatred upon the persons on whom they •all; where then shall we find Gods people in the world? We must then seek out the proud vain sensual wantons of the world, who spend their days in pleasure, and say these are the men whom God loves▪
Outward things are promiscuously dispensed, and no man's spiritual estate is discernible by the view of his temporal. When God draws the Sword, it may cut off the righteous as well as the wicked, Ezek. 21. 3.
Outward things are promiscuously dispensed, and no man's spiritual estate is discernable by the view of his temporal. When God draws the Sword, it may cut off the righteous as well as the wicked, Ezek. 21. 3.
Though the Providences of God materially considered afford no evidence of Gods love to us, yet the manner in which they befall us, and the effects and fruits they produce in us, do distinguish them very manifestly; and by them we may discern whether they be sanctified Providences, and fruits of the love of God, or no. But yet these effects and fruits of Providences by which we discern their nature, do not always presently appear; but time must be allowed for the souls exercise under them. As it is