O the blessed chemistry of heaven! -flavel

sermonindex Feb 8, 2007

~~[b]~~O the blessed chemistry of heaven![/b]

(John Flavel, "The Method of Grace")

The Lord makes use even of your sins and
infirmities to do you good. By these, He . . .
humbles you,
beats you off from self-dependence,
makes you admire the riches of grace,
makes you long more ardently for heaven,
causes you to entertain sweeter thoughts of death.

Does not the Lord then, make blessed fruits to spring
up from such a bitter root? O the blessed chemistry
of heaven--to extract such mercies out of such miseries!

Ruach34 Feb 16, 2007

Hey, sermonindex, where do you get the work of John Flavel. I know about CCEL and have tried to get a working password for a while and cannot succeed. Is there another place that offers his work?

myfirstLove Feb 16, 2007

2 Corinthians 1:8-9

8For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

9But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: