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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.
First Negative.
It is a sign, that comfort is not sanctified to us,§1 which comes not (ordinarily) in the way of Prayer. The wicked boasteth of hi• hearts desire, and blesseth the covetous whom the Lord abhorreth. The wicked through the pride of his countenance will […] s••k after God; God is not in all his thoughts, Psal. 10. 3, 4. Here you see Providence may give men their hearts desire, and yet they never once ⟨p. 244⟩open their desires to God in prayer about it. But then those gifts of Providence are only such as are bestowed on the worst of men, and are not the fruits of love.
It is a sign, that comfort is not sanctified to us,§1 which comes not (ordinarily) in the way of Prayer. The wicked boasteth of hi• hearts desire, and blesseth the covetous whom the Lord abhorreth. The wicked through the pride of his countenance will 〈…〉 s••k after God; God is not in all his thoughts, Psal. 10. 3, 4. Here you see Providence may give men their hearts desire, and yet they never once ⟨p. 244⟩