“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
Oh sirs, deal with sin as sin, and speak of heaven and hell as they are, and not as if you were… — 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
I think it is not very difficult to discern by the duties and converses of Christians, what frames their spirits are under.… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
The carnal person fears man, not God. The strong Christian fears God, not man. The weak Christian fears man too much, and… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
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… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Turn in upon yourselves, get into your closets, and now resolve to dwell there. You have been strangers to this work too… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Tell me, you vain professor, when did you shed a tear for the deadness, hardness, unbelief, or earthliness of your heart? Do… — 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