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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.
Fourth Help.
Study the singular benefits and advantages of a Will resigned up, and melted into the Will of God.
(1.) Such a Spirit hath a continual Sabbath within it self: the thoughts are established, Prov. 16. 3. and truly, till a man come to this, he doth but too much resemble the Devil, who is a restless Spirit, seeking rest, but finding none.
(1.) Such a Spirit hath a continual Sabbath within it self: the thoughts are established, Prov. 16. 3. and truly, till a man come to this, he doth but too much resemble the Devil, who is a restless Spirit, secking rest, but finding none.
It was an excellent expression of Luther, to one that was much perplexed in his spirit about the doubtful events of some affairs of his that were then depending: Dominus tua omnJa facJat, & tu nihil facJas, sed sis Sabbatum Christi: (i. e.) The Lord shall do all for thee, and thou shalt do nothing, but be the Sabbath of Christ. It is by this means that the Lord gives his beloved sleep,