Puritan minister · devotional writer · Reformed

John Flavel

Born: 1630
Died: 1691

English Presbyterian minister and Puritan writer whose sermons unite evangelical doctrine with pastoral appeals to faith, repentance, and perseverance.

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Divine Conduct, or, The Mysterie of Providence

Flavel's treatise on Psalm 57:2: proof that providence performs all things for the saints, a survey of its performances through every stage of life from birth and conversion to employment, family and preservation from sin, directions for observing providence, motives to the duty, and cases of conscience on reading God's will in providences and resigning to them.

1678Devotional theologyRead

England's Duty under the Present Gospel Liberty

Rom. II. 4. Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

1689SermonsRead