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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.
It is a good sign our troubles are sanctified to us, when they turn our hearts against sin, and not against God. There be few great afflictions which befall men, but they make them quarrelsome and discontented. Wicked men quarrel with God, and are filled with discontent against him. So the Scripture describes them, Rev. 16. 9. They were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues. But Godly men to whom afflictions are sanctified, they justify God, and fall out with sin, they condemn themselves and give glory to God, Dan. 9. 7. O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, &c. And Lam. 3. 39. •Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? Happy afflictions which make the Soul fall out and quarrel only with sin.
It is a good sign our troubles are sancti•ied to us, when they turn our hearts against sin, and not against God. There be few great afflictions which befall men, but they make them quarrelsome and discontented. Wicked men quarrel with God, and are filled with discontent against him. So the Scripture describes them, Rev. 16. 9. They were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues. But Godly men to whom afflictions are sanctified, they justifie God, and fall out with sin, they condemn themselves and give glory to God, Dan. 9. 7. O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusJon of faces, &c. And Lam. 3. 39. •Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? Happy afflictions which make the Soul fall out and quarrel only with sin.