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When the world smiles upon us, and we have got a warm nest, how do we prophesy of rest and peace in those acquisitions, thinking with good Baruch, great things for ourselves, but Providence by a particular or general calamity overturns our plans (Jer. 45:4,5), and all this to turn our hearts from the creature to God.

John Flavel

It is the great support and solace of the saints in all the distresses that befall them here, that there is a wise Spirit sitting in all the wheels of motion, and governing the most eccentric creatures and their most pernicious designs to blessed and happy issues.

John Flavel

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

John Flavel

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

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

John Flavel

John Flavel

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Born: 1627

Died: 1691 (aged 64)

Bio: John Flavel was an English Presbyterian clergyman, puritan, and author.

Known for:

Keeping the Heart
The method of grace (1681)
Christ Altogether Lovely
The Believer's Prophet, Priest and King

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