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Christ comes with kingly power, to rescue sinners, as a prey from the mouth of the terrible one.
John Flavel
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John Flavel
Age: 61 †
Born: 1630
Born: January 1
Died: 1691
Died: June 26
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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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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.
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Observed duties maintain our credit but secret duties maintain our life.
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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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Sometimes God makes use of instruments for good to His people, who designed nothing but evil and mischief to them. Thus Joseph's brethren were instrumental to his advancement in that very thing in which they designed his ruin (Gen. 50:20).
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Scripture knows no other way to glory, but Christ put on and applied by faith.
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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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It is the great support and solace of the saints in all the distresses that befall them here, that there is a wise Spirit sitting in all the wheels of motion, and governing the most eccentric creatures and their most pernicious designs to blessed and happy issues.
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That which begins not with prayer, seldom winds up with comfort.
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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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Tell me, you vain professor, when did you shed a tear for the deadness, hardness, unbelief, or earthliness of your heart? Do you think that such an easy religion can save you? If so, we may invert Christ's words and say, 'Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to life, and may there be that go in there.'
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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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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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How often has providence convinced its observers, upon a sober recollection of the events of their lives, that if the Lord had left them to their own counsels they had as often been their own tormentors, if not executioners!
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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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Christ and his benefits go inseparably and undividedly... Many would willingly receive his privileges, who will not receive his person but it cannot be if we will have one, we must take the other too: Yea, we must accept his person first, and then his benefits: as it is in the marriage covenant, so it is here.
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