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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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Some providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards.
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If God has given you but a small portion of the world, yet if you are godly He has promised never to forsake you (Heb. 13:5). Providence has ordered that condition for you which is really best for your eternal good. If you had more of the world than you have, your heads and hearts might not be able to manage it to your advantage.
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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".
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The greatest difficulty in conversion is to win the heart to God and after conversion to keep it with Him.
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What, at Peace with the Father, and at War with the (His) Children! It cannot be.
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You may look upon some providences once and again, and see little or nothing in them, but look "seven times," that is, meditate often upon them, and you will see their increasing glory, like that increasing cloud (1 Kings 18:44).
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What is a child, but a piece of the parent enrapt up in another skin? And yet our dearest children are but as strangers to us, in comparison of the unspeakable dearness that was between the Father and Christ. Now, that he should ever be content to part with a Son, and such an only One, is such a manifestation of love, as will be admired to all eternity.
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The law sends us to Christ to be justified, and Christ sends us to the law to be regulated.
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Scripture knows no other way to glory, but Christ put on and applied by faith.
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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.
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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.
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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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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!
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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.
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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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