“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.

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