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OF THE REVEREND

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MR. JOHN FLAVEL,

Late MINISTER of the GOSPEL at Dartmouth in Devon.

IN EIGHT VOLUMES.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

An Alphabetical TABLE of the principal Matters contained in the Whole.

THE EIGHT EDITION.

VOL. I.

PAISLEY:

Printed by A. WEIR and A. M'LEAN.

And fold at the Shop of A. WEIR, near the Cross,

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CONTENTS.

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to the Reader,

SERMON

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THE LIFE of MR. JOHN FLAVEL,

The FOUNTAIN of LIEE opened up.

The epistle Dedicatory,

Opens the Excellency of the Subject,

I.

1 Cor, ii. 1. "For I determined not to know any thing among

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you, fave Jesus Christ, and him crucified,"

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SERMON

II.

Sets forth Christ in his essential and primeval Glory.

Prov. viii. 30. " Then was I by him, as one brought up with
" him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before
" him,"

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SERMON

111.

Opens the Covenant of Redemption betwixt the Father and
the Redeemer.

Ifa. liii 12. "Therefore will I divide him a portion with the
great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, be-
"cause he hath poured out his foul unto death: and he
was numbered with the tranfgreffors, and he bare the fin
" of many, and made intercession for the transgressors,"

Opens the admirable Love of God in giving his own Son
for us.

John iii. 16. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his

Treats of Christ's wonderful Perfon.

John i. 14. "And the Word was made Flesh, and dwelt a-

Shews the Authority by which Christ, as Mediator, acted.

John vi, 27. "For him hath God the Father sealed,"

Treats of the Solemn Confecration of the Mediator.

John xvii. 19. " And for their sakes I sanctify myself,"

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Gives an Account of the Nature of Christ's Mediation.

1 Tim. ii. 5. "And one Mediator betwixt God and Man, the

man Christ Jesus,"

Opens the first Branch of the Prophetical Office, confifting
in the Revelation of the Will of God.

Acts iii. 22. " A Prophet shall the Lord your God raise up un-

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to you, of your Brethren, like unto me; him shall ye

" hear in all things, whatsoever he shall say unto you,"

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Opens the second Branch of the Prophetical Office, con-
sisting in the Illumination of the Understanding.
Luke xxiv. 45. "Then opened he their understandings," &c. 140

SERMON ΧΙ.

Discovers the Nature and Neceffity of the Priesthood of
Christ.

Heb. ix. 23. " It was therefore necessary that the patterns of
"things in the heavens should be purified with these; but
"the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than
" these,"

Opens the Excellency of our High-Priest's Oblation, being
the first Act or Part of his Prieftly Office.

Heb. x. 14. " For by one offering, he hath perfected for ever

"them that are sanctified,"

Opens the Interceffion of Christ our High-Priest, being the
second Act or Part of his Prieftly Office.

Heb. vii. 25. "Wherefore he is able also to save them to the ut-
" termoft, that come unto God by him, feeing he ever liv-
"eth to make intercession for them,"

SERMON XIV.

Asserts and vindicates the Satisfaction of Christ, being the
the first principal Effect or Fruit of his Priesthood.
Gal. iii. 13. "Chrift hath redeemed us from the curse of the
" law, being made a curse for us,"

Surveys the blessed Inheritance purchased by the Oblation
of Christ, being the second Effect or Fruit of his Prieft-
hood.

Gal. iv. 4, 5. "But when the fulness of time was come, God
"sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
to redeem them that were under the law, that we might
" receive the adoption of fous,"

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SERMON XVI.

Opens the Kingly Office of Chrift, as executed spiritually
upon the Souls of the Redeemed.

2 Cor. x. 5. "Casting down imaginations, and every high
thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God,
" and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience
" of Chrift,"

SERMON XVII.

Opens the Kingly Office of Christ, as it is providentially
executed in the World, for the Redeemed.

Eph. i. 22. " And hath put all things under his feet, and gave
" him to be the head over all things to the church,"

SERMON XVIII.

Opens the Necessity of Christ's Humiliation, in order to the
Execution of all these his blessed Offices for us; and
particularly of his Humiliation by Incarnation.
Phil. ii. 8. "And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled
" himself, and became obedient to death, even the death

" of the cross,"

SERMON XIX.

Treats of Christ's Humiliation in his Life.
Phil. ii. 8. "And being found in fashion as a man," &c.

SERMON XX.

Opens Christ's Humiliation unto Death, in his first prepa-
rative Act for it.

John xvii. II. "And now I am no more in the world, but

"these are in the world; and I come to thee: Holy Fa-
ther, keep through thine own name, those whom thou
" hast given me; that they may be one as we are,"

SERMON ΧΧΙ.

Opens the second preparative Act of Christ for his own
Death.

1 Cor. xi. 23, 24, 25.--"The Lord Jesus, the same night
" in which he was betrayed, took bread," &c.

SERMON XXII.

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Opens the third preparative Act of Christ for his own Death.
Luke xxii. 41, 42, 43, 44. "And he was withdrawn from them
" about a stones cast, and kneeled down, and prayed," &c. 292

SERMON XXIII.

Discovers the first Preparation for Christ's Death, on his
Enemies Part, by the Treason of Judas.

Matth. xxvi. 47, 48, 49. "And while he yet spake, lo, Judas

one of the twelve came, and with him a great multitude,
" with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders
" of the people," &c.

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