A39659:798

Divine Conduct, or The Mystery of Providence

Name: Divine Conduct, or The Mystery of Providence
Author: John Flavel

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 ...

John Flavel 1630?–1691London: printed by R.W. for Francis Tyton, 1678

[20], 264, [12] p. · 78k words · Wing F1158 · ESTC R31515

Title page of the 1681 edition: Internet Archive scan of the Early English Books microfilm (opens the Internet Archive in a new tab)

Divine Conduct, OR THE MYSTERY OF Providence: Opened in a TREATISE… › Head 5 › Case 4 › Question 1 › Consideration 4: Fourth Consideration.Divine Conduct, OR THE MYSTERIE OF Providence: Opened in a TREATISE… › Head 5 › Case 4 › Question 1 › Consideration 4: Fourth Consideration.

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Fourth Consideration.¹

14. Consid.

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This is a great discovery of the Carnality and corruption that is in thy heart: it argues an heart little set upon God, little mortified to the world, little acquainted with the vanity and ensnaring nature of these things. O you know not what hearts you have, till such Providences try them. And is not such a discovery matter of deep humiliation?

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Fifth Consideration.¹

15. Consid.

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Was it not better with you in a low condition, than it is now? Reflect, and compare state with state, and time with time. How is the frame of your hearts altered with the alteration of your condition? So God complains of Israel,

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The book

Title as printed

Author

John Flavel 1630?–1691

Place

London

Printer

R.W.

Bookseller

Francis Tyton

Year

1678

Size

[20], 264, [12] p.

Words

78,156

Catalogue

Wing F1158 · ESTC R31515

Text

EEBO-TCP A39659

Passages

902

Sections

Title page

Divine Conduct, or The Mystery of Providence

Fourth Consideration.¹

Fifth Consideration.¹

Quest. 2.¹

First Consideration.¹

Second Consideration.¹

Third Consideration.¹

Quest. 3.¹

Transcription key

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

Fourth Consideration.1

Fifth Consideration.1

Quest. 2.1

First Consideration.1

Second Consideration.1

Third Consideration.1

Quest. 3.1

Transcription key

Fourth Consideration.¹

Fifth Consideration.¹

Quest. 2.¹

First Consideration.¹

Second Consideration.¹

Third Consideration.¹

Quest. 3.¹