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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.
When prosperity is abused to sensuality, and merely serves as fuel to maintains fleshly lusts, ⟨p. 245⟩it is not sanctified. See Job 21. 11, 12, 13. They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their Children dance. They take the Timbrel and Harp, and rejoice at the sound of the Organ. They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
When prosperity is abused to sensuality, and meerly serves as fuell to maintains fleshly lusts, ⟨p. 245⟩it is not sanctifJed. See Job 21. 11, 12, 13. They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their Children dance. They take the Timbrell and Harp, and rejoyce at the sound of the Organ. They spend their dayes in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
It's a sign that prosperity is not sanctified to §5men, when it swells the heart with pride and self-conceitedness, Dan. 4. 29, 30. At the end of twelve months he walked in the Palace of the Kingdom of Babylon. The King spake and said, Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house of the Kingdom, by the might of my power, and for the honour of my Majesty?
It's a sign that prosperity is not sanctifJed to §5men, when it swells the heart with pride and self-conceitedness, Dan. 4. 29, 30