The Sixth Performance of Providence.
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The Sixth Performance of Providence.
VI.
Thus you see, the care Providence hath had over you in your youth, in respect of that Civil Employment to which it guided us in those days.
THus you see, the care Providence hath had over you in your youth, in respect of that Civil Imployment to which it guided us in those dayes.
We will in the next place consider it as our Guide, 1and the Orderer of our Relations for us. That Providence hath a special hand in this matter, is evident both from Scripture assertions, and the acknowledgements of holy men, who in that great concernment of their lives, have still owned, and acknowledged the directing hand of Providence. Take an instance of both. The Scripture plainly asserts the dominion of Providence over this affair in Prov. 19. 14. A prudent Wife is from the Lord: and Prov. 18. 22. Whose. findeth a Wife, findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord. So for Children, see Psal. 127. 3. Lo, Children are an heritage of the Lord; and the fruit of the Womb is his reward.
We will in the next place consider it as our Guide,