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• Guilt is to danger, what fire is to gunpowder; a man need not fear to walk among many barrels of powder, if he have no fire about him.

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  Men, Fire, Guilt

  John Flavel (1826). “A saint indeed: or, The great work of a Christian in keeping the heart in the several conditions of life”, p.127

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• For the infinite glorious Creator of all things, to become a creature, is a mystery exceeding all human understanding.

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  Understanding, Mystery, Infinite

  John Flavel (1836). “The Fountain of Life Opened; Or, A Display of Christ in His Essential and Mediatorial Glory. 1671”, p.163

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• And now let us consider and marvel that ever this great and blessed God should be so much concerned, as you have heard He is in all His providences, about such vile, despicable worms as we are! He does not need us, but is perfectly blessed and happy in Himself without us. We can add nothing to Him.

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  Christian, Blessed, Doe

  "The Mystery of Providence".

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• Some providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards.

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  Letters, Hebrew, Providence

  John Flavel (1822). “Navigation Spiritualized, Or, A New Compass for Seamen: Consisting of Thirty-two Points ...”, p.121

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• 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.

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  Christian, Comfort, Looks

  John Flavel (2013). “The Mystery of Providence”, p.68, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I think it is not very difficult to discern by the duties and converses of Christians, what frames their spirits are under. Take a Christian in a good frame, and how serious, heavenly, and profitable, will his converses and duties be! what a lovely companion is he during the continuance of it!

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  Christian, Thinking, Lovely

  John Flavel (1799). “Whole Works of the Rev. Mr. John Flavel”, p.433

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• Observed duties maintain our credit; but secret duties maintain our life.

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  Secret, Credit, Duty

  John Flavel (1799). “Whole Works of the Rev. Mr. John Flavel”, p.520

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• Scripture knows no other way to glory, but Christ put on and applied by faith.

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  Way, Scripture, Christ

  John Flavel, Rev Terry Kulakowski (2015). “THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE OPENED UP”, p.183, Lulu.com

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• 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).

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  Heart, Men, Self

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• Oh sirs, deal with sin as sin, and speak of heaven and hell as they are, and not as if you were in jest.

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  Heaven, Sin, Speak

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• God's unspotted faithfulness never failed any soul that durst trust himself in its arms.

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  Soul, Arms, Faithfulness

  John Flavel (1820). “The whole works of John Flavel: late minister of the gospel at Dartmouth, Devon”, p.280

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• Where there is no want, there is usually much wantonness.

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  Want, Wealth

  John Flavel (1799). “Whole Works of the Rev. Mr. John Flavel”, p.46

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• All the dark, intricate, puzzling providences at which we were sometimes so offended...we shall [one day] see to be to us, as the difficult passage through the wilderness was to Israel, "the right way to the city of habitation".

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  Christian, Dark, Israel

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• Christ bounds and terminates the vast desires of the soul; He is the very Sabbath of the soul.

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  Soul, Desire, Christ

  John Flavel (1875). “The Method of Grace, in the Holy Spirits Applying to the Souls of Men the Eternal Redemption Contrived by the Father, and Accomplished by the Son (etc.)”, p.191

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• It is better to be as low as hell with a promise, than in Paradise without one.

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  Promise, Paradise, Hell

  John Flavel (1799). “Whole Works of the Rev. Mr. John Flavel”, p.458

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• It would much conduce to the settlement of your hearts, to consider, That by fretting and discontent, you do yourselves more injury thart till the afsltilions you lie under could do; your own discontent is that which arms your troubles with a sting; it is you that make your burden heavy, by struggling under it. Could you but lie quiet under the hand of God, your condition would be much easier and sweeter than it is.

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  Lying, Struggle, Heart

  "Whole Works of the Rev. Mr. John Flavel".

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• To keep the heart then, is carefully to preserve it from sin which disorders it; and maintain that spiritual and gracious frame, which fits it for a life of communion with God.

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  Spiritual, Heart, Sin

  John Flavel (1799). “Whole Works of the Rev. Mr. John Flavel”, p.426

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• The heart of a Christian, like the moon, commonly suffers an eclipse when it is at the full, and that by the interposition of the earth.

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  Christian, Heart, Moon

  John Flavel (1794). “Husbandry Spiritualized, Or, The Heavenly Use of Earthly Things: Consisting of Many Pleasant Observations, Pertinent Applications, and Serious Reflections : and Each Chapter Concluded with a Divine and Suitable Poem, Directing Husbandmen to the Most Excellent Improvements of Their Common Employments : Whereunto are Added, by Way of Appendix, Several Choice Occasional Meditations Upon Birds, Beasts, Trees, Flowers, Rivers, and Several Other Objects : Fitted for the Help of Such as Desire to Walk with God in All Their Solitudes, and Recesses from the World”, p.59

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• What is a child, but a piece of the parent enrapt up in another skin? And yet our dearest children are but as strangers to us, in comparison of the unspeakable dearness that was between the Father and Christ. Now, that he should ever be content to part with a Son, and such an only One, is such a manifestation of love, as will be admired to all eternity.

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  Niños, Padre, Hijo

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• No repentance, obedience, self-denial, prayers, tears, reformation or ordinances, without the new creation, avail any thing to the salvation of thy soul.

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  Prayer, Self, Soul

  John Flavel (1875). “The Method of Grace, in the Holy Spirits Applying to the Souls of Men the Eternal Redemption Contrived by the Father, and Accomplished by the Son (etc.)”, p.341

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• That soul is dead to which the Spirit of Christ is not given in the work of regeneration; and all its works are dead works.

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  Soul, Spirit, Christ

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• Christian, thou knowest thou carriest Gunpowder about thee, desire those that carry Fire to keep at a Distance from thee; 'tis a dangerous Crisis when a proud Heart meets with flattering Lips.

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  Christian, Distance, Heart

  "The Whole Works of the Reverend Mr. John Flavel".

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• 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.

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  Distance, Soul, Christ

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• We are not distinguished from brutes by our senses, but by our understanding.

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  Understanding, Distinguished, Brutes

  John Flavel (1701). “The whole works of the Reverend Mr. John Flavel: ... to which are added alphabetical tables of the texts of scripture explained, and indexes of the principal matters contained in both volumes”, p.497

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• I look upon every good man, as a good book, lent by its owner for another to read, and transcribe the excellent notions and golden passages that are in it for his own benefit, that they may return with him when the owner shall call for the book again: but in case this excellent book shall be thrown into a corner and no use made of it, it justly provokes the owner to take it away in displeasure. --Funeral of John Upton, Esq

  John Flavel

  Book, Men, Funeral

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