No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified. — 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
There is no grace more excellent than faith; no sin more execrable and abominable then unbelief. Faith is the saving grace and… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Christ's resurrection is the ground-work of our hope. And the new birth is our title or evidence of our interest in it. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
A saving, though an immethodical knowledge of Christ, will bring us to heaven, John 17: 2, but a regular and methodical, as… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Let us see that our knowledge of Christ be not a powerless, barren, unpractical knowledge: O that, in its passage from our… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Christ bounds and terminates the vast desires of the soul; He is the very Sabbath of the soul. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
We acknowledge no righteousness but what the obedience and satisfaction of Christ yields us. His blood, not our faith; his satisfaction, not… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Look to it, my dear friends, that none of you be found Christless at your appearance before him. Those that continue Christless… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
He feels all our sorrows, needs, and burdens as his own. That is why it is said that the sufferings of believers… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
“It is the most sweet and comfortable knowledge; to be studying Jesus Christ, what is it but to be digging among all… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Let all Arminians know: we have as high an esteem for faith as any men in the world, but yet we will… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
The law sends us to Christ to be justified, and Christ sends us to the law to be regulated. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Christ [is] the very essence of all delights and pleasures, the very soul and substance of them. As all the rivers are… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Did Christ finish His work for us? Then there can be no doubt but He will also finish His work in us. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
The Spirit must therefore first take hold of us before we can live in Christ, and when he doth so, then we… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Creatures, like pictures, are fairest at a certain distance, but it is not so with Christ; the nearer the soul approaches Him,… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
The opening of your hearts to receive the Lord Jesus Christ is not a work done by any power of your own,… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
As the blood of Christ is the fountain of all merit, so the Spirit of Christ is the fountain of all spiritual… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ is in every way sufficient to the vast desires of the soul. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
What is a child, but a piece of the parent enrapt up in another skin? And yet our dearest children are but… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Scripture knows no other way to glory, but Christ put on and applied by faith. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
The knowledge of Christ is profound and large. All other sciences are but shadows; this is a boundless, bottomless ocean. Though something… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
We must not think that faith itself is the soul's rest; it is only the means of it. We cannot find rest… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
That soul is dead to which the Spirit of Christ is not given in the work of regeneration; and all its works… — 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