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| John Flavel |
If therefore, in doubtful cases, you would discover God’s will, govern yourselves in your search after it by these rules:1. Get the true fear of God upon your hearts; be really afraid of offending Him.2. Study the Word more, and the concerns and interests of the world less.3. Reduce what you know into practice, and you shall know what is your duty to practice.4. Pray for illumination and direction in the way that you should go.5. And this being done, follow Providence as far as it agrees with the Word, and no farther. - John Flavel
The manner of God’s revealing His will to men is (also) very different. Some have had special, personal, and peculiar discoveries of it made to them. So had Samuel about the choice of the person whom he should anoint king. . . . But now, all are tied up to the ordinary standing rule of the written Word, and must not expect any such extraordinary revelations from God. The way we now have to know the will of God concerning us in difficult cases, is to search and study the Scriptures, and where we find no particular rule to guide us in this or that particular case, there we are to apply general rules. - John Flavel
