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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 here supposed to be the Christians great duty, under the apprehensions of approaching troubles to resign his will to Gods, and quietly commit the events and issues of all to him, whatever they may prove. Thus did David in the like case and circumstances, 2 Sam. 15. 25, 26. And the King said unto Zadock, carry back the Ark of God into the City. If I shall find favour in the eyes of the Lord, he will bring me back again, and show me both it and his habitation: but if he shall thus say, I have no delight in thee, behold here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good to him.
It is here supposed to be the Christians great duty, under the apprehensions of approaching troubles to resign his will to Gods, and quietly commit the events and issues of all to him, whatever they may prove. Thus did David in the like case and circumstances, 2 Sam. 15. 25, 26. And the King said unto Zadock, carry back the Ark of God into the City. If I shall find favour in the eyes of the Lord, he will bring me back again, and shew me both it and his habitatJon: but if he shall thus say, I have no delight in thee, behold here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good to him.
O lovely and truly Christian temper! q. d. go Zadock, return with the Ark to its place, though I have not the symbol, yet I hope I shall ⟨p. 261⟩have the real presence of God with me in this sad journey: how he will dispose the events of this sad and doubtful Providence I know not: Either I shall return again to Jerusalem, or I shall not: If I do, then I shall see it again, and enjoy the Lord in his ordinances there. If I do not, then I shall go to that place where there is no need or use of those things. And either way it will be well for me, I am content to refer all to the divine pleasure, and commit the issue, be it whatever it will be, to the Lord.