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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.
O how ravishing and delectable a sight is that! to behold at one view the whole design of Providence, and the proper place, and use of every single act, which we could not understand in this world: for what Christ said to Peter, John 13. 7. is as applicable to some providences in which we are now concerned, as it was to that particular action; What I do thou knowest not now, but hereafter thou shalt know it. All the dark intricate puzzling Providences at which we were sometimes so stumbled, and sometimes amazed, which we could neither reconcile with the promise, nor with each other; nay, which we so unjustly censured and bitterly bewailed, as if they had fallen out quite cross to our happiness: we shall than see to be unto us, as the difficult passage through the Wilderness was unto Israel, the right way to a City of habitation, Psalm 107. 7.
O how ravishing and delectable a sight is that! to behold at one view the whole design of Providence, and the proper place, and use of every single act, which we could not understand in this world: for what Christ said to Peter, John 13. 7. is as applicable to some providences in which we are now concerned, as it was to that particular action; What I do thou knowest not now, but hereafter thou shalt know it. All the dark intricate puzling Providences at which we were sometimes so stumbled, and sometimes amazed, which we could neither reconcile with the promise, nor with each other; nay, which we so unjustly censured and bitterly bewailed, as if they had fallen out quite cross to our happiness: we shall than see to be unto us, as the difficult passage through the Wilderness was unto Israel, the right way to a City of habitatJon, Psalm 107. 7.
And yet though our present views and reflections ⟨p. 12⟩