Description
"If you can afford only a few sets of Puritan works, Flavel's should be included." - Meet the Puritans: Joel Beeke and Randall Pederson
The repeated editions of Flavel's Works bear their own witness to his popularity. 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 R. M. M'Cheyne and Andrew Bonar. Flavel's complete works had long been unobtainable until we reprinted them 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 One:
1. The Life of John Flavel
2. The Fountain of Life: A Display of Christ in His Essential and Mediatorial Glory
Volume Two:
1. The Method of Grace in the Gospel Redemption
2. Pneumatologia: A Treatise of the Soul of Man
Volume Three:
1. Pneumatologia: A Treatise of the Soul of Man (continued)
2. A Practical Treatise on Fear: Its Varieties, Uses, Causes, Effects and Remedies
3. The Righteous Man’s Refuge
4. The Occasions, Causes, Nature, Rise, Growth and Remedies of Mental Errors
5. Appendices
6. Gospel Unity Recommended to the Churches of Christ
Volume Four:
1. England’s Duty under the Present Gospel Liberty (1689)
2. An Appendix to the Foregoing Treatise
3. Mount Pisgah: A Sermon preached at the Public Thanksgiving, February 14, 1688-9, for England’s Delivery from Popery, etc. (Including an Epistle Dedicatory)
4. Divine Conduct or the Mystery of Providence: A Treatise upon Psalm 57.2
5. A Narrative of some late and wonderful Sea Deliverances
6. Antipharmacum Saluberrimum : A Serious and Seasonable Caveat to all the Saints in This Hour of Temptation
7. Tidings from Rome or England’s Alarm
Volume Five:
1. Husbandry Spiritualized: The Heavenly Use of Earthly Things
2. Navigation Spiritualized: A New Compass for Seamen
3. A Caution to Seamen: A Dissuasive against Several Horrid and Detestable Sins
4. The Seamen’s Companion: Six Sermons on the Mysteries of Providence as relating to Seamen; and the Sins, Dangers, Duties and Troubles of Seamen
5. A Saint Indeed, or The Great Work of a Christian Explained and Applied
6. The Touchstone of Sincerity, or The Signs of Grace and the Symptoms of Hypocrisy
7. A Token for Mourners
Volume Six:
1. Preparation for Suffering, or the Best Work in the Worst Times
2. The Balm of the Covenant Applied to the Bleeding Wounds of Afflicted Saints: II Samuel 23.5
3. A Sermon Preached at the Funeral of John Upton, of Lupton (Devon): II Chronicles 35.24-5
4. An Exposition of the (Westminster) Assembly’s Shorter Catechism
5. 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
6. Twelve Sacramental Meditations
7. A Familiar Conference between a Minister and a Doubting Christian Concerning the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper
8. A Hymn upon Romans 5:6-11
9. The Reasonableness of Personal Reformation and the Necessity of Conversion
10. A Coronation Sermon
11. The Character of an Evangelical Pastor drawn by Christ
12. A Two-column Table of the Sins and Duties attaching to Church Membership
Author
John Flavel (1628–1691) was an English Puritan who became a non-conformist after the ‘Great Ejection’ of 1662. It was 10 years before he was licenced to preach again, and then only in his own home. His writings, when collected in the 19th century, filled 6 volumes. Flavel’s writings are known for their practical nature. He was instrumental in promoting the ‘Happy Union’ of Presbyterians and Congregationalists.
