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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.
Set before you those choice Scripture patterns of submission to the Lords Will in as deep, yea, much deeper points of self-denial than this before you, and shame your selves out of this quarrelling temper with Providence.
Set before you those ch•ice Scripture patterns of s•bmission to the Lords Will in as deep, yea, much deeper points of self-denyal than this before you, and shame your selves out of this quarrelling temper with Providence.
You know what a close trial that Providence was to Abraham, that called him from his native Country and Fathers house, to go he knew not whither; and yet it's said in Isa. 41. 2. he came ⟨image 144⟩to Gods foot, as readily obeying his call, as a servant when his Master knocks for him with his foot.
You know what a close tryal that Providence was to Abraham, that called him from his native Countrey and Fathers house, to go he knew not whither; and yet it's said in Isa. 41. 2. he came ⟨image 144⟩to Gods foot, as readily obeying his call, as a servant when his Master knocks for him with his foot.
Paul's voyage to Jerusalem, had a dismal aspect upon himself, he could expect nothing but bonds and prisons, as he tells us,