Conscience which should have been the sinner’s curb here on earth becomes the sinner’s whip that will lash his soul in hell. That which was the seat and center of all guilt now becomes the seat and center of all torment.

— John Flavel (1627–1691), Puritanischer Prediger

Topics: Eternity & Hope Beyond Death, Guilt & Forgiveness

John Flavel

John Flavel war ein englischer puritanischer Geistlicher und Autor des 17. Jahrhunderts, der nach dem Verlust seiner Pfarrstelle durch die Uniformitätsakte von 1662 vor allem verdeckt in Dartmouth wirkte. Er wurde durch theologische Schriften über die göttliche Vorsehung, innere Herzensprüfung und seelsorgerlichen Trost in Krisenzeiten bekannt. Heutigen Bibellesern vermittelt sein Werk einen Einblick in die Verbindung von reformierter Glaubenslehre mit praxisnaher Seelsorge und Alltagsfrömmigkeit.

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