Category Archives: John Flavel

His Providence Controlled by Promises

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Jacob Young

In the opening pages of John Flavel’s The Mystery of Providence, he makes a comment that helps me see how the Bible affects me today. Rom 8:28, “and we know that all things work together for good to them that … Continue reading →

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New e-book: The Fountain of Life by John Flavel

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Jacob Young

The aim of every Christian’s heart should treasure with increasing delight the glory of Jesus Christ in their daily life. This desire ekes through every Apostle’s writings from Paul to John. One of the best ways we can do this apart from … Continue reading →

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Jesus, Hell, and the Love of God

Posted on August 10, 2011 by Jacob Young

Hell is a rather popular topic of controversy today. In the little that I’ve read in the discussion, most focus on human value and the victory of the love of God, with little seriousness about the sufferings of Christ. On … Continue reading →

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He thinks on us, when we forget him

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Jacob Young

Our home has been a little crazy lately (for reasons enumerated at my wife’s blog), so I’ve been sparse in reading and posting. So when these sort of times come up, I go to the bare basics. In times like these I need something … Continue reading →

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Jesus Christ and Him Crucified

Posted on March 24, 2009 by Jacob Young

I did a mini-paper outline for a men’s meeting this past week on the person of Christ and the atonement (hence the tittle). For the outline I pulled some quotes from my past reading. I’ve put them bellow headed by … Continue reading →

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Grace Tried is Glory in its Infancy

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Jacob Young

As we have not far to carry it, and Christ carries the heaviest part; yes, all the burden for us; yes, us and our burden too; so, in the last place, it is reviving to think what an innumerable multitude … Continue reading →

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Christ Bears the Heaviest End of Our Cross

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Jacob Young

As we shall carry the cross of Christ but a little way, so Christ himself bears the heaviest end of it. And as one happily expresses, he says of their crosses, half mine. He divideth sufferings with them, and takes … Continue reading →

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Sorrow and The Saints Are Not Married

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Jacob Young

It should be enough to me (says a holy one) that Christ will have joy and sorrow halfers of the life of the saints. And that each of them should have a share of our days, as the night and … Continue reading →

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God’s Holy Providence

Posted on July 21, 2008 by Jacob Young

The Lord is righteous in all his waysand kind in all his works.~ Psalm 145:17 John Flavel comments on this verse that, just as you cannot separate heat from a sunbeam, so you cannot separate holiness from God’s works. Quite … Continue reading →

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Prayer for Jesus Christ – Flavel

Posted on April 8, 2008 by Jacob Young

This is a prayer I read in a chapter of Flavel last night. My meager introduction to it is that it’s smack in the middle of a great chapter on Christ’s priesthood, how he particularly cares for his people, and … Continue reading →

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