When a man begins to apprehend the first approach of grace, pardon, an — John Flavel

"Sometimes providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards."

"No friend sympathizes so tenderly with his friend in affliction as does Jesus. "In all our afflictions, He is afflicted." He feels all our sorrows, wants, and burdens as His own. Whence it is that the sufferings of believers are called the sufferings of Christ."

"How much better it is to see men live exactly than to hear them argue with subtlety!"

"We must not think that faith itself is the souls 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."

"Two things a master commits to his servants care — the child and the childs clothes. It will be a poor excuse for the servant to say, at his masters return, "Sir, here are all the childs clothes, neat and clean, but the child is lost." Much so of the account that many will give to God of their souls and bodies at the great day. "Lord, here is my body; I am very grateful for it; I neglected nothing that belonged to its contents and welfare; but as for my soul, that is lost and cast away forever. I took little.care and thought about it."

"Faith, considered as a habit, is no more precious than other gracious habits are; but considered as an instrument to receive Christ and His righteousness, it excels them all; and this instrumentality of faith is noted in the phrases, "by faith," and "through faith."