“The Holy Spirit richly blessed Flavel’s preaching.
Robert Murray M’Cheyne (1813-1843) tells of an American immigrant, Luke Short, who remembered listening to Flavel preach in England when he was fifteen years old. The text was:
‘If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha‘ (1 Cor. 16:22).
Eighty-five years after hearing Flavel preach on the horror of dying under God’s curse, the Spirit of God effectually converted Short at the age of one hundred as he meditated on that sermon!”
–Joel Beeke, Randall Pederson, and Fraser Jones, “John Flavel, (1630-1691),” Meet the Puritans: A Guide to their Lives and Books, 2nd Edition (Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage, 2006, 2025), 366.
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