Christ [is] the very essence of all delights and pleasures, the very soul and substance of them. As all the rivers are gathered into the ocean, which is congregation or meeting-place of all waters in the world: so Christ is that ocean in which all true delights and pleasures meet. . . .
John FlavelChrist's resurrection is the ground-work of our hope. And the new birth is our title or evidence of our interest in it.
John FlavelYou may look upon some providences once and again, and see little or nothing in them, but look "seven times," that is, meditate often upon them, and you will see their increasing glory, like that increasing cloud (1 Kings 18:44).
John FlavelChrist comes with kingly power, to rescue sinners, as a prey from the mouth of the terrible one.
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