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John Flavel (c.1627–1691) was an English Presbyterian clergyman, puritan, and author.

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Whatever be the ground of one's distress, it should drive him to, not from God.

Distress, Drive, God, Ground, Should

If God has given you but a small portion of the world, yet if you are godly He has promised never to forsake you (Heb. 13:5). Providence has ordered that condition for you which is really best for your eternal good. If you had more of the world than you have, your heads and hearts might not be able to manage it to your advantage.

Advantage, Christian, Condition, Godly, Good, Heart

Regeneration expresses those supernatural, divine, new qualities imparted by the Spirit to the soul, which are the principle of all holy action.

Soul, Quality, Principles, Expresses, Imparted, Spirit

Christ [is] the very essence of all delights and pleasures, the very soul and substance of them. As all the rivers are gathered into the ocean, which is congregation or meeting-place of all waters in the world: so Christ is that ocean in which all true delights and pleasures meet. . . .

Congregation, Essence, Gathered, Ocean, Rivers, Soul

The Providence of God is like Hebrew words-it can be read only backwards.

Backwards, Hebrew, Like, Providence

A saving, though an immethodical knowledge of Christ, will bring us to heaven, John 17: 2, but a regular and methodical, as well as a saving knowledge of him, will bring heaven into us, Col. 2: 2, 3.

Christ, Col, Heaven, Knowledge, Saving, Though

The law sends us to Christ to be justified, and Christ sends us to the law to be regulated.

Christ, Christian, Jesus, Justified, Law, Regulated

Jesus Christ is in every way sufficient to the vast desires of the soul.

Christ, Desire, Jesus, Soul

The soul of the poorest child is of equal dignity with the soul of Adam.

Child, Children, Dignity, Equal, Soul

Let us see that our knowledge of Christ be not a powerless, barren, unpractical knowledge: O that, in its passage from our understanding to our lips, it might powerfully melt, sweeten, and ravish our hearts! Remember, brethren, a holy calling never saved any man, without a holy heart; if our tongues only be sanctified, our whole man must be damned. We must be judged by the same gospel, and stand at the same bar, and be sentenced to the same terms, and dealt with as severely as any other men.

Dealt, Heart, Lips, Men, Understanding, Whole

Christ's resurrection is the ground-work of our hope. And the new birth is our title or evidence of our interest in it.

Birth, Hope, Resurrection, Title, Titles

There is no grace more excellent than faith; no sin more execrable and abominable then unbelief. Faith is the saving grace and unbelief the damning sin. (Mark 16:16). . . Before Christ can be received, the heart must be emptied and opened: but men's heart's are full of self-righteousn ess and vain confidence (Rom 10:3).

Ess, Faith, Heart, Men, Self, Sin

The carnal person fears man, not God. The strong Christian fears God, not man. The weak Christian fears man too much, and God too little.

Christian, Fears, God, Person, Strong

Look around in the world, and you may see some in every place who are objects of pity, bereaved by sad accidents of all the comforts of life, while in the meantime Providence has tenderly preserved you.

Bereaved, Christian, Comfort, Look, Looks, World

Turn in upon yourselves, get into your closets, and now resolve to dwell there. You have been strangers to this work too long; you have kept other vineyards too long; you have trifled about the borders of religion too long. Will you now resolve to look better to your hearts? Will you hate and come out of the crowds of business and clamors of the world and retire yourselves more than you have done? Oh, that this day you would resolve upon it!

Crowds, Hate, Heart, Long

We acknowledge no righteousness but what the obedience and satisfaction of Christ yields us. His blood, not our faith; his satisfaction, not our believing it, is the matter of our justification before God.

Believe, Blood, Righteousness, Satisfaction, Yield

Grace makes the promise and providence the payment.

Grace, Payment, Promise, Providence

As the blood of Christ is the fountain of all merit, so the Spirit of Christ is the fountain of all spiritual life; and until he quicken us and infuse the principle of the divine life into our souls, we can put forth no hand, or vital act of faith, to lay hold upon Jesus Christ.

Blood, Infuse, Jesus, Principle, Spiritual, Vital

Christ is so in love with holiness, that at the price of His blood He will buy it for us.

Blood, Christ, Holiness, Price

Creatures, like pictures, are fairest at a certain distance, but it is not so with Christ; the nearer the soul approaches Him, and the longer it lives in the enjoyhment of Him, still the sweeter and more desirable He becomes.

Christ, Creatures, Distance, Fairest, Soul

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