John Flavel byl anglický puritánský nonkonformistický kazatel.
„Ti, kdo znají Boha, budou pokorní, a ti, kdo znají sebe, nemohou být pyšní.“
Originál: (en) They that know God will be humble, and they that know themselves, cannot be proud.
Zdroj: The whole works of John Flavel: late minister of the gospel at Dartmouth, Devon. Svazek II., s. 412.
„Kristus nám není sladký, dokud se nám hřích nestane hořkým.“
Originál: (en) Christ is not sweet till sin be made bitter to us.
Zdroj: Ibid., s. 165.
Originál: (en) The law sends us to Christ to be justified, and Christ sends us to the law to be regulated.
Zdroj: [Flavel, John, II, The whole works of John Flavel: late minister of the gospel at Dartmouth, Devon, https://books.google.cz/books?id=yPdLAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=cs&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false, W. Baynes and son, London, 1820, 609, 271, angličtina]
Originál: (en) By entertaining of strange persons, men sometimes entertain angels unawares: but by entertaining of strange doctrines, many have entertained devils unaware.
Zdroj: The whole works of John Flavel: late minister of the gospel at Dartmouth, Devon. Svazek III., s. 488-489.
„Ježíš, naše hlava, je již v nebesích; a je-li hlava nad vodou, tělo se nemůže utopit.“
Originál: (en) Jesus, our head, is already in heaven; and if the head be above water, the body cannot drown.
Zdroj: [Flavel, John, I, The whole works of John Flavel: late minister of the gospel at Dartmouth, Devon, https://books.google.cz/books?id=T_dLAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=cs&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false, W. Baynes and son, London, 1820, 561, 176, angličtina]
„To, co nezačíná modlitbou, zřídkakdy končí utěšeně.“
Originál: (en) That which begins not with prayer, seldom winds up with comfort.
Zdroj: Ibid., s. 466.
Originál: (en) It is easier to declaim like an orator against a thousand sins in others, than to mortify one sin like christians, in ourselves; to be more industrious in our pulpits than in our closets; to preach twenty sermons to our people, than one to our own hearts.
Zdroj: [Life of the Rev. John Flavel, of Dartmouth, https://books.google.cz/books?id=1b9jAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=cs&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false, Religious Tracts Society, London, 1832, 72, 14-15, angličtina]
Originál: (en) The manner of God’s revealing His will to men is also very varied. Some have had special, personal and peculiar discoveries of it made to them. (…) But now, all are tied up to the ordinary standing rule of the written Word and must not expect any such extraordinary revelations from God. The way we now have to know the will of God concerning us in difficult cases is to search and study the Scriptures, and where we find no particular rule to guide us in this or that particular case, there we are to apply general rules and govern ourselves according to the analogy and proportion they bear towards each other.
Source: Ibid., s. 468.
„Skrze bázeň Boží lidé odstupují od zlého, ale skrze bázeň před lidmi utíkají ke zlému.“
Originál: (en) By the fear of the Lord men depart from evil, by the fear of man they run themselves into evil.
Zdroj: [Flavel, John, III, The whole works of John Flavel: late minister of the gospel at Dartmouth, Devon, https://books.google.cz/books?id=X_hLAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=cs&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false, W. Baynes and son, London, 1820, 608, 252, angličtina]
Originál: (en) I know there is nothing in the word or in the works of God that is repugnant to sound reason, but there are some things in both that are opposite to carnal reason as well as above right reason; and therefore our reason never shows itself more unreasonable than in summoning those things to its bar that transcend its sphere and capacity.
Zdroj: The whole works of John Flavel: late minister of the gospel at Dartmouth, Devon. Svazek IV., s. 435.
Originál: (en) Providence is like a curious piece of arras made of a thousand shreds, which, single, appear useless, but put together, and stitched up orderly, they represent a beautiful history to the eye.
Zdroj: Ibid., s. 444.
Originál: (en) As God did not at first choose you because you were high, so he will not forsake you because you are low.
Zdroj: Ibid., s. 442.
Originál: (en) Be not too quick to bury the church before she is dead! stay till Christ hath tried his skill, before you give it up for lost.
Zdroj: The whole works of John Flavel: late minister of the gospel at Dartmouth, Devon. Svazek V., s. 449.
Originál: (en) Here I see the true face of sin: if I yield to thy temptation, I must either feel the pangs of conscience, or the flames of hell.
Zdroj: The whole works of John Flavel: late minister of the gospel at Dartmouth, Devon. Svazek V., s. 478.
„Ač hřích přinesl rolníkovi pot, nepotit se by nyní rozmnožilo jeho hřích.“
Originál: (en) Though sin brought in the husbandman's sweat, yet now not to sweat would increase his sin.
Zdroj: Ibid., s. 27.
„Je to má nevědomost Božích záměrů, co mě vede svářit se s Ním.“
Originál: (en) It is my ignorance of God's design that makes me quarrel with Him.
Zdroj: Ibid., s. 441.
„V některých případech se musí prozřetelnost, stejně jako hebrejská písmena, číst pozpátku.“
Originál: (en) Some providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards.
Zdroj: The whole works of John Flavel: late minister of the gospel at Dartmouth, Devon. Svazek V., s. 284.
Originál: (en) Providence so orders the case, that faith and prayer come betwixt our wants and supplies, the goodness of God may be the more magnified in our eyes thereby.
Zdroj: Ibid., s. 397.
Originál: (en) Complain to God you may, but to complain of God (though but by an unsuitable carriage and the language of your actions) you must not.
Zdroj: [Flavel, John, V, The whole works of John Flavel: late minister of the gospel at Dartmouth, Devon, https://books.google.cz/books?id=IvlLAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=cs&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false, W. Baynes and son, London, 1820, 666, 446, angličtina]
„Milost dává slib a prozřetelnost jej splácí.“
Originál: (en) Grace makes the promise and providence the payment.
Zdroj: [Flavel, John, IV, The whole works of John Flavel: late minister of the gospel at Dartmouth, Devon, https://books.google.cz/books?id=wPhLAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=cs&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false, W. Baynes and son, London, 1820, 586, 345, angličtina]
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.
Zdroj: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 255.
Zdroj: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 319.
“They that know God will be humble,
They that know themselves cannot be proud.”
Zdroj: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 329.
“Christ bounds and terminates the vast desires of the soul; He is the very Sabbath of the soul.”
Zdroj: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 559.
“How much better it is to see men live exactly than to hear them argue with subtlety!”
Zdroj: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 315.
“There are three acts of faith, assent, acceptance, and assurance.”
Zdroj: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 226.
Zdroj: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 228.
Zdroj: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 7.
The Mystery of Providence
Zdroj: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 608.
“The law sends us to Christ to be justified, and Christ sends us to the law to be regulated.”
Zdroj: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 375.
Zdroj: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 607.
“Christ is not sweet till sin be made bitter to us.”
Zdroj: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 398.
Zdroj: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 560.
Zdroj: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 152.
Zdroj: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 320.
Zdroj: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 158.
Zdroj: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 476.
Zdroj: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 166.
Zdroj: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 85.
Zdroj: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 92.
Zdroj: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 236.
Zdroj: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 390.
Zdroj: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 236.
“Sometimes providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards.”
Zdroj: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 280.
