John Flavel: Quotes about Christ

“Here you may suppose the Father to say when driving His bargain with Christ for you. The Father speaks. "My Son, here is a company of poor, miserable souls that have utterly undone themselves and now lay open to my justice. Justice demands satisfaction for them, or will satisfy itself in the eternal ruin of them." The Son responds. "Oh my Father. Such is my love to and pity for them, that rather than they shall perish eternally I will be responsible for them as their guarantee. Bring in all thy bills, that I may see what they owe thee. Bring them all in, that there be no after-reckonings with them. At my hands shall thou require it. I would rather choose to suffer the wrath that is theirs then they should suffer it. Upon me, my Father, upon me be all their debt." The Father responds. "But my Son, if thou undertake for them, thou must reckon to pay the last mite. Expect no abatement. Son, if I spare them… I will not spare you." The Son responds. "Content Father. Let it be so. Charge it all upon me. I am able to discharge it. And though it prove a kind of undoing to me, though it impoverish all my riches, empty all my treasures… I am content to take it."”

John Flavel

The Works of John Flavel, Vol.1, "A Display of Christ in His Essential and Mediatorial Glory", 42 Sermons, Sermon Number 3, "The Covenant of Redemption between the Father and the Redeemer", Use 6.

Love , Justice , Soul , Suffering

“As the blood of Christ is the fountain of all merit, so the Spirit is the fountain of all spiritual life; and until He quickens us, imparts the principle of divine life to our souls, we can put forth no vital act of faith to lay hold upon Jesus Christ.”

John Flavel

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 319.

Life , Faith , Soul , Christ

“Christ bounds and terminates the vast desires of the soul; He is the very Sabbath of the soul.”

John Flavel

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 559.

Soul , Christ

“Christ imparts to all believers all the spiritual blessings that He is filled with, and withholds none from any that have union with Him, be these blessings never so great, or they that receive them never so weak and contemptible in outward respects..”

John Flavel

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 608.

Christ

“The law sends us to Christ to be justified, and Christ sends us to the law to be regulated.”

John Flavel

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 375.

Law , Christ

“Unbelief makes a man guilty of the vilest contempt of Christ, and the whole design of redemption by Him.”

John Flavel

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 607.

Christ

“Christ is not sweet till sin be made bitter to us.”

John Flavel

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 398.

Christ

“You are not to come to Christ because you are qualified, but that you may be qualified with whatever you want; and the best qualification you can bring is a deep sense that you have no worth or excellency at all in you.”

John Flavel

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 152.

Sense , Christ

“See that you receive Christ with all your heart. As there is nothing in Christ that may be refused, so there is nothing in you from which He must be excluded.”

John Flavel

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 158.

Heart , Christ

“When a man begins to apprehend the first approach of grace, pardon, and mercy by Jesus Christ to his soul; when he is convinced of his utter unworthiness and desert of hell, and can never expect any thing from a just and holy God but damnation, how do the first dawnings of mercy melt and humble him!”

John Flavel

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 85.

God , Soul , Hell , Christ

“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.”

John Flavel

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 92.

Feeling , Affliction , Suffering , Christ

“We must not think that faith itself is the soul's 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.”

John Flavel

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 236.

Faith , Soul , Thinking , Christ

“The soul that rightly receives Christ is in a longing condition; never did the hart pant for the water brooks, never did the hireling desire the shadow, never did a condemned person long for a pardon more than the soul longs for Christ.”

John Flavel

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 390.

Soul , Water , Christ , Personality

“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."”

John Flavel

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 236.

Faith , Christ