Keeping The Heart In Time Of Adversity By John Flavel An Excerpt

Keeping the Heart In Time of Adversity, by John Flavel. An Excerpt.

Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak. ~ Mark 14:38

Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them. ~ Proverbs 22:5

He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered. ~ Proverbs 28:26

Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons; ~ Deuteronomy 4:9

Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; ~ Hebrews 12:15

Keep thyself pure. ~ 1 Timothy 5:22c

To keep himself unspotted from the world. ~ James 1:27c

We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not. ~ 1 John 5:18

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
~ Proverbs 4:23

"2. Having composed your heart by previous meditation, immediately set a guard upon your senses. How often are Christians in danger of losing the eyes of their mind by those of their body! Against this David prayed, "Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity, and quicken thou me in thy way." This may serve to expound the Arabian proverb: "Shut the windows that the house may be light." It were well if you could say in the commencement, as a holy man once said when he came from the performance of duty: "Be shut, O my eyes, be shut; for it is impossible that you should ever discern such beauty and glory in any creature as I have now seen in God." You must avoid all occasions of distraction from without, and imbibe that intenseness of spirit in the work of God which locks up the eye and ear against vanity."

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