Where can I buy the works of John Flavel?

The Works of John Flavel is a six-volume set published by the Banner of Truth. It is a great joy for me to provide this review of an outstanding set of Puritan works. May the reader be blessed by this review and encouraged to purchase this set and likewise be richly impacted by the words of John Flavel.

Why was John Flavel important to the Evangelical Awakening?

Of the importance of Flavel’s writings in the 18th century abundant evidence exists. The leaders of the Evangelical Awakening which at last broke the spiritual torpor of that century drew much from his works.

When did John Flavel become a Congregationalist minister?

Ordained as a Presbyterian in 1650, though later a Congregationalist, he held livings at Diptford (in Devon) and Dartmouth. He was ejected from the latter as a result of the Great Ejection of 1662; however, he continued to preach there secretly. After the Declaration of Indulgence 1687, he became a minister of a Nonconformist Church there.

Where did John Flavel live most of his life?

John Flavel (1628-1691), 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.

What kind of preaching did John Flavel do?

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 pre-eminence in his ability to combine both instruction and appeal to the heart.

Who was the first professor to read John Flavel?

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.’