Showing posts with label John Flavel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Flavel. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Wisdom and Insight on What the Content of Christian Blogging Should Aspire
...by puritan divine: John Flavel

"Oh sirs, deal with sin as sin, and speak of heaven and hell as they are, and not as if you were in jest."  -JOHN FLAVEL

"Oh, that I might live to see that day when professors shall not walk in vain show; when they shall please themselves no more with a name to live, being spiritually dead; when they shall no more (as many of them now are) be a company of frothy, vain, and unserious persons, but the majestic beams of holiness shining from their heavenly and serious conversation shall awe the world, and command reverence from all who are about them; when they shall warm the hearts of those who come nigh them, so that men shall say, 'God is truly in these men!'"  -JOHN FLAVEL

"Oh, study your hearts, watch your hearts, keep your hearts! Away with empty names and vain shows; away with unprofitable discourse and bold censures of others. Turn in upon yourselves, get into your closets, and now resolve to dwell there. You have been strangers to this work too long; you have kept other vineyards too long; you have trifled about the borders of religion too long. Will you now resolve to look better to your hearts? Will you hate and come out of the crowds of business and clamors of the world and retire yourselves more than you have done? Oh, that this day you would resolve upon it!"  -JOHN FLAVEL