Description
John Flavel (1630–1691), son of a Puritan minister who died in prison for his Nonconformity, was educated at University College, Oxford, and laboured for almost the entire period of his ministry at Dartmouth, Devon. Having all the characteristics of the tradition to which he belonged – a tradition which believed that preaching should be ‘hissing hot,’ searching, and expository – Flavel attained to preeminence in his ability to combine both instruction and appeal to the heart. Some Puritans might be more learned than he, and some more quaint, but for all-round usefulness none was his superior.
The repeated editions of Flavel’s Works bear their own witness to his popularity: five times were The Works of John Flavel issued in the 18th century and at least three times in the 19th. He was a favourite with Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield (who ranked him with John Bunyan and Matthew Henry), and, a century later, with such Scottish evangelical leaders as Robert Murray M‘Cheyne and Andrew Bonar. But it was in the homes of Christian people that Flavel made his greatest appeal and influenced rising generations: Archibald Alexander, the first professor at Princeton Seminary, read him while still a teenager and recorded in later life, ‘To John Flavel I certainly owe more than to any uninspired author.’
Flavel’s complete works had long been unobtainable until reprinted by the Trust in 1968. His six volumes are in themselves a library of the best Puritan divinity and a set will be a life-long treasure to those who possess it. He is one of that small number of evangelical writers who can by their lucidity and simplicity help those at the beginning of the Christian life and at the same time be a strong companion to those who near its end.
Table of Contents
Volume 1: The Life of John Flavel
The Fountain of Life: A Display of Christ in His Essential and Mediatorial Glory
Volume 2: The Method of Grace in the Gospel Redemption
Pneumatologia: A Treatise of the Soul of Man
Volume 3: Pneumatologia: A Treatise of the Soul of Man (continued)
A Practical Treatise on Fear: Its Varieties, Uses, Causes, Effects and Remedies
The Righteous Man's Refuge
The Occasions, Causes, Nature, Rise, Growth and Remedies of Mental Errors
Appendices
Gospel Unity Recommended to the Churches of Christ
Volume 4: England's Duty under the Present Gospel Liberty (1689)
An Appendix to the Foregoing Treatise
Mount Pisgah: A Sermon preached at the Public Thanksgiving, February 14, 1688-9, for England's Delivery from Popery, etc. (Including an Epistle Dedicatory)
Divine Conduct or the Mystery of Providence: A Treatise upon Psalm 57.2
A Narrative of some late and wonderful Sea Deliverances
Antipharmacum Saluberrimum : A Serious and Seasonable Caveat to all the Saints in This Hour of Temptation
Tidings from Rome or England's Alarm
Volume 5: Husbandry Spiritualized: The Heavenly Use of Earthly Things
Navigation Spiritualized: A New Compass for Seamen
A Caution to Seamen: A Dissuasive against Several Horrid and Detestable Sins
The Seamen's Companion: Six Sermons on the Mysteries of Providence as relating to Seamen; and the Sins, Dangers, Duties and Troubles of Seamen
A Saint Indeed, or The Great Work of a Christian Explained and Applied
The Touchstone of Sincerity, or The Signs of Grace and the Symptoms of Hypocrisy
A Token for Mourners
Volume 6: Preparation for Suffering, or the Best Work in the Worst Times
The Balm of the Covenant Applied to the Bleeding Wounds of Afflicted Saints: II Samuel 23.5
A Sermon Preached at the Funeral of John Upton, of Lupton (Devon): II Chronicles 35.24-5
An Exposition of the (Westminster) Assembly's Shorter Catechism
Vindiciae Legis et Foederis, or A Reply to M, Philip Cary's Solemn Call in which He Contends Against the Right of Believers' Infants to Baptism
Twelve Sacramental Meditations
A Familiar Conference between a Minister and a Doubting Christian Concerning the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper
A Hymn upon Romans 5. 6-11
The Reasonableness of Personal Reformation and the Necessity of Conversion
A Coronation Sermon
The Character of an Evangelical Pastor drawn by Christ
A Two-column Table of the Sins and Duties attaching to Church Membership
Index of Texts
Index of Subjects
Product Details
Title: The Works of John Flavel, 6 Volume Set
Author: John Flavel
Publisher: Banner of Truth
Pages: 3667
Binding: Cloth-bound
Size: 22.3 x 14.6 x 23.3 cm
ISBN: 9780851510606