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• Jesus, our head, is already in heaven; and if the head be above water, the body cannot drown.

  John Flavel

  Jesus, Water, Heaven

  John Flavel, Rev Terry Kulakowski (2015). “THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE OPENED UP”, p.161, Lulu.com

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• Providence is wiser than you, and you may be confident it has suited all things better to your eternal good than you could do had you been left to your own option.

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  May, Be Confident, Providence

  John Flavel (2013). “The Mystery of Providence”, p.54, Lulu Press, Inc

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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).

  John Flavel

  Christian, People, Evil

  John flavel, Rev Terry Kulakowski (2017). “The Mystery of Providence”, p.140, Lulu.com

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• Providence is like a curious piece of tapestry made of a thousand shreds, which, single, appear useless, but put together, they represent a beautiful history to the eye.

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  Beautiful, Eye, Together

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• Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.

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  Sin, Easier, Thousand

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• Whatsoever we have over-loved, idolized, and leaned upon, God has from time to time broken it, and made us to see the vanity of it; so that we find the readiest course to be rid of our comforts is to set our hearts inordinately upon them.

  John Flavel

  Christian, Heart, Blessing

  John flavel, Rev Terry Kulakowski (2017). “The Mystery of Providence”, p.145, Lulu.com

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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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  Blood, Holiness, Christ

  John Flavel, Rev Terry Kulakowski (2015). “THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE OPENED UP”, p.80, Lulu.com

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• What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in our infancy when we could not pray for ourselves!

  John Flavel

  Baby, Religious, Prayer

  John Flavel (2013). “The Mystery of Providence”, p.33, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Grace makes the promise and providence the payment.

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  Grace, Promise, Payment

  John Flavel (2013). “The Mystery of Providence”, p.6, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Jesus Christ is in every way sufficient to the vast desires of the soul.

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  Jesus, Soul, Desire

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• Let all Arminians know: we have as high an esteem for faith as any men in the world, but yet we will not rob Christ to clothe faith.

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  Men, World, Christ

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• We must not think that faith itself is the soul's rest; it is only the means of it. We cannot find rest in any work or duty of our own, but we may find it in Christ, whom faith apprehends for justification and salvation.

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  Mean, Thinking, Soul

  John Flavel (1996). “The Method of Grace: How the Holy Spirit Works”, p.175, Hartland Publications

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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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  Heart, Thinking, Tears

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• When God gives you comforts, it is your great evil not to observe His hand in them.

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  Hands, Evil, Giving

  John Flavel (2013). “The Mystery of Providence”, p.133, Lulu Press, Inc

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• [Providences] often puzzle and entangle our thoughts, but bring them to the Word, and your duty will be quickly manifested. "Until I went into the sanctuary of God, then understood I their end" (Ps. 73:17). And not only their end, but his own duty, to be quiet in an afflicted condition and not envy their prosperity.

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  Christian, Envy, Sanctuary

  John flavel, Rev Terry Kulakowski (2017). “The Mystery of Providence”, p.142, Lulu.com

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• The opening of your hearts to receive the Lord Jesus Christ is not a work done by any power of your own, but the arm of the Lord is revealed therein.

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  Jesus, Heart, Done

  John Flavel (1996). “The Method of Grace: How the Holy Spirit Works”, p.134, Hartland Publications

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• Surely if He would not spare His own Son one stroke, one tear, one groan, one sigh, one circumstance of misery, it can never be imagined that ever He should, after this, deny or withhold from His people, for whose sakes all this was suffered, any mercies, any comforts, any privilege, spiritual or temporal, which is good for them.

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  Spiritual, Son, People

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• The soul of man, like the bird in the shell, is still growing or ripening in sin or grace, till at last the shell breaks by death, and the soul flies away to the piece it is prepared for, and where it must abide forever.

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  Men, Bird, Forever

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• The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness.

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  Christian, Grace, Affliction

  John Flavel (1799). “Whole Works of the Rev. Mr. John Flavel”, p.555

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• Turn in upon yourselves, get into your closets, and now resolve to dwell there. You have been strangers to this work too long; you have kept other vineyards too long; you have trifled about the borders of religion too long. Will you now resolve to look better to your hearts? Will you hate and come out of the crowds of business and clamors of the world and retire yourselves more than you have done? Oh, that this day you would resolve upon it!

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  Hate, Heart, Long

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• That which begins not with prayer, seldom winds up with comfort.

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  Prayer, Wind, Comfort

  John Flavel (1799). “Whole Works of the Rev. Mr. John Flavel”, p.466

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• God's unspotted faithfulness never failed any soul that durst trust himself in its arms.

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  Soul, Arms, Faithfulness

  John Flavel (1820). “The whole works of John Flavel: late minister of the gospel at Dartmouth, Devon”, p.280

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• Let us see that our knowledge of Christ be not a powerless, barren, unpractical knowledge: O that, in its passage from our understanding to our lips, it might powerfully melt, sweeten, and ravish our hearts! Remember, brethren, a holy calling never saved any man, without a holy heart; if our tongues only be sanctified, our whole man must be damned. We must be judged by the same gospel, and stand at the same bar, and be sentenced to the same terms, and dealt with as severely as any other men.

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  Heart, Men, Understanding

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• What, at peace with the Father and at war with the children? It cannot be.

  John Flavel

  Christian, Children, Father

  "The Method of Grace: How the Holy Spirit Works".

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• My soul is of more value than ten thousand worlds.

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  Soul, World, Thousand

  John Flavel (1698). “Pneumatologia: A Treatise of the Soul of Man: Wherein the Divine Original, Excellent and Immortal Nature of the Soul are Opened ...”, p.42

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