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God's unspotted faithfulness never failed any soul that durst trust himself in its arms.
John Flavel
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John Flavel
Age: 61 †
Born: 1630
Born: January 1
Died: 1691
Died: June 26
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John Flavell
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Did Christ finish His work for us? Then there can be no doubt but He will also finish His work in us.
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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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Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.
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What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in our infancy when we could not pray for ourselves!
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Surely if He would not spare His own Son one stroke, one tear, one groan, one sigh, one circumstance of misery, it can never be imagined that ever He should, after this, deny or withhold from His people, for whose sakes all this was suffered, any mercies, any comforts, any privilege, spiritual or temporal, which is good for them.
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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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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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Grace makes the promise and providence the payment.
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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. . . .
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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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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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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 is so in love with holiness, that at the price of His blood He will buy it for us.
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One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul.
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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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Scripture knows no other way to glory, but Christ put on and applied by faith.
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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.
John Flavel
Observed duties maintain our credit but secret duties maintain our life.
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We must not think that faith itself is the soul's rest it is only the means of it. We cannot find rest in any work or duty of our own, but we may find it in Christ, whom faith apprehends for justification and salvation.
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It is the duty of the saints, especially in times of straights, to reflect upon the performances of Providence for them in all the states and through all the stages of their lives.
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