John Flavel

Also known as John Flavell, Johan Flavel, Johannes Flavel

English Presbyterian clergyman

Top works

A gift for mourners
Husbandry spiritualized, or, the heavenly use of earthly things
Sacramental meditations upon divers select places of scripture
The fountain of life opened up; or, a display of Christ in his essential and mediatorial glory
Pneumatologia

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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.”
“When God gives you comforts, it is your great evil not to observe His hand in them.”
“They foresaw that the concession of a Providence would impose an eternal yoke upon their necks, by making them accountable for all they did to a higher tribunal, so that they must necessarily 'pass the time of their sojourning here in fear', while all their thoughts, words and ways were strictly noted and recorded, for the purpose of an account by an all-seeing and righteous God. They therefore laboured to persuade themselves that what they had no mind for did not exist.”
“The greatest difficulty in conversion is to win the heart to God and after conversion to keep it with Him.”
“God kills thy comforts from no other design but to kill thy corruptions; wants are ordained to kill wantonness, poverty is appointed to kill pride, reproaches are permitted to destroy ambition.”
“When a man begins to apprehend the first approach of grace, pardon, and mercy by Jesus Christ to his soul; when he is convinced of his utter unworthiness and desert of hell, and can never expect any thing from a just and holy God but damnation, how do the first dawnings of mercy melt and humble him!”