The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Afflictions have the same use and end to our souls, that frosty weather hath upon those clothes that are laid and bleaching, they alter the hue and make them white. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
It is better to be as low as hell with a promise, than in Paradise without one. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Christ comes with kingly power, to rescue sinners, as a prey from the mouth of the terrible one. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Regeneration expresses those supernatural, divine, new qualities imparted by the Spirit to the soul, which are the principle of all holy action. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
All the tears of a penitent sinner, should he shed as many as there have been fallen drops of rain since the creation, cannot… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
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… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
You may look upon some providences once and again, and see little or nothing in them, but look "seven times," that is, meditate often… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
There is no grace more excellent than faith; no sin more execrable and abominable then unbelief. Faith is the saving grace and unbelief the… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
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… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
To keep the heart then, is carefully to preserve it from sin which disorders it; and maintain that spiritual and gracious frame, which fits… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Lord, here is my body; I am very grateful for it; I neglected nothing that belonged to its contents and welfare; but as for… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
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