PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Whole Works of John Flavel — Volume 4
Flavel, John, 1630?-1691 · 295,325 words · 248 reading sections
Section 241
vitude : and " because we served not the Lord our God with joy- " fuhiess and gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things, " that therefore we shall serve our enemies, which the Lord shall " send aganist us, in hunger, and thirst, and nakedness, and the " want of all things ?"" Deut. xxviii. 47. That so we may r…
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with another; and these Moses quiets, and parts them. fairly ; and some are like the Egyptian striving with the Israelite, wliom Moses smites down. * It was a noble speech of Anthony of Bourbon, king of Navarre, to the Danish ambassador ; this king being a peer of France, and first prince of the blood, challenged the r…
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It is not so much their confidence, as our impenitence that is to be feared. Haman was as confident as they can be, and had cast Pur for the Jews, as well as they for us, Esth. iii. 7. So was Pharaoh too, when he said, I will pursue, I will pursue: God can quickly give their pregnant designs a miscarrying womb, so that…
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Oraculo voci viiindi moderaris habenas, Et merito in terris crederis esse Deus. Sixtus 4th. His coming is after the working of Satan, with all power and signs, and lying wonders, of which there are numberless multi- tudes in popery, their legends swarm with them. " He hath horns " as a lamb,"' viz. pretences of meeknes…
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2. Abhor popery, for it is a bloody religion. Rev. xvii. 6. *' And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and *' with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus." The pope writes his law in blood, wherever he erects his throne ; he is the son of per- dition in an active, as well as in a passive sense. Poor England …
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JundamentumJuUit opus, every thing is as its foundation is. Lastly, They deny the possibility of the assurance of salvation in this life ; and so consequently, their consciences must be always cauterized and dead, or fluctuating and dubious : O what a religion is this ! 5. Lastly, It is a damnable religion ; we have n…
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In the year 1607, when, by the irruption of the Severn sea, the country in Somersetshire was overflown almost twenty miles in length, and four miles in breadth, and many persons drowned : it was then observable (saith Mr. * Fuller) that creatures of contrary natures, as dogs and hares, Jbxes and conies, yea, cats and m…
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* els, yet you shall never pluck the truth out of my heart.' O how is Christ honoured, enemies daunted, and your souls secured by your constancy in a time of danger ! Hold fast what you have re- ceived, and though you lose your heads, yet save your crowns. It was a resolute and noble saying of Luther, when hard put to …
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