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The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.

John Flavel

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John Flavel
Age: 61 †
Born: 1630
Born: January 1
Died: 1691
Died: June 26
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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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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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Christ bounds and terminates the vast desires of the soul He is the very Sabbath of the soul.
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That which begins not with prayer, seldom winds up with comfort.
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Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.
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The Lord's supper is memorative, and so it has the nature and use of a pledge or token of love, left by a dying to a dear surviving friend.
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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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Suppose that by revenge you might destroy one enemy yet, by exercising the Christian's temper you might conquer three‌–‌your own lust, Satan's temptation, and your enemy's heart.
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To see a man humble under prosperity is one of the greatest rarities in the world.
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Whatever be the ground of one's distress, it should drive him to, not from God.
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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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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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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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My soul is of more value than ten thousand worlds.
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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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No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
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God's unspotted faithfulness never failed any soul that durst trust himself in its arms.
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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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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.
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