Guardando el Corazón es uno de los libros que más influencia ha ejercido en la historia de la Iglesia Evangélica Protestante. El libro tiene una función doble, y busca responder dos preguntas fundamentales: ¿Cómo puedo saber que soy un cristiano verdadero? Y ¿Cómo puedo crecer en la vida cristiana?. El libro es de suma importancia para todo aquel que busca crecer en la vida cristiana y en comunión con Cristo Jesús. Flavel menciona que no solo basta el estudio de las Escrituras para desarrollar una piedad bíblica si la misma no es acompañada por la obra del Espíritu. Por otro lado, el Espíritu no obra de manera separada de la Palabra. Sobre Flavel algunos han dicho:Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892), “En estos escritos vive para siempre. Los intérpretes modernos no lo han reemplazado, ni tampoco lo harán hasta el fin de los tiempos”.George Whitefield (1714-1768), “Todavía habla por sus escritos, una unción peculiar lo acompaña hasta el día de hoy”.Las citas y recomendaciones de este libro hechas por hombres muy usados por Dios son interminables. Guardando el Corazón, tuvo un rol fundamental en los avivamientos misioneros del siglo XVIII. El gran teólogo norteamericano Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), solía referirse a Flavel como “el santo Flavel”, y es uno de los libros más citados en su famosa obra "Los afectos religiosos". La obra que usted tiene en sus manos corresponde al original en inglés, edición académica, sin abreviar. Asimismo, incluye cientos de notas explicativas, así como traducciones del latín y griego nunca antes traducidas al español o ingles. Incluye también una introducción histórica y teológica, así como un ensayo introductorio del renombrado erudito escocés Ian Macleod.
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John Flavel (1628 - 1691)
Was an English Presbyterian clergyman, puritan, and author. Flavel, the eldest son of the Rev. Richard Flavel, described as ‘a painful and eminent minister,’ who was incumbent successively of Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, Hasler and Willersey, Gloucestershire (from which last living he was ejected in 1662), was born in or about 1630 at Bromsgrove.He was ejected from his living by the passing of the Act of Uniformity in 1662, but continued to preach and administer the sacraments privately till the Five Mile Act of 1665, when he retired to Slapton, 5 miles away. He then lived for a time in London, but returned to Dartmouth, where he labored till his death in 1691. He was married four times. He was a vigorous and voluminous writer, and not without a play of fine fancy. His principal works are his Navigation Spiritualized (1671); The Fountain of Life, in forty-two Sermons (1672); The Method of Grace (1680); Pneumatologia, a Treatise on the Soul of Man (1698); A Token for Mourners; Husbandry Spiritualized (1699).
John Flavel was an English Presbyterian clergyman. Flavel was born at Bromsgrove, Worcestershire and studied at Oxford. A Presbyterian, 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, became a minister of a Nonconformist Church there.
He was a prolific and popular author. Among his works are The Mystery of Providence (1678), Husbandry Spiritualised (1669) and Navigation Spiritualised (1671), The Seamon's Companion (1676), titles which suggest some of his characteristics as a writer.
He died at Exeter, Devonshire, on 26 June 1691. Flavel is commemorated in the name of Flavel Road on Bromsgrove's Charford Estate.
John Flavel (or Flavell) was born in 1628 in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. He was the son of Richard Flavel, a minister who died of the plague in 1665 while in prison for nonconformity. John Flavel was educated by his father in the ways of religion, then "plied his studies hard" as a commoner at University College, Oxford. In 1650, he was ordained by the presbytery at Salisbury. He settled in Diptford, where he honed his numerous gifts.
He married Joan Randall, a godly woman, who died while giving birth to their first child in 1655. The baby died as well. After a year of mourning, Flavel married Elizabeth Stapell and was again blessed with a close, God-fearing marriage, as well as children.
In 1656, Flavel accepted a call to be minister in the thriving seaport of Dartmouth. He earned a smaller income there, but his work was more profitable; many were converted. One of his parishioners wrote of Flavel, "I could say much, though not enough of the excellency of his preaching; of his seasonable, suitable, and spiritual matter; of his plain expositions of Scripture; his talking method, his genuine and natural deductions, his convincing arguments, his clear and powerful demonstrations, his heart-searching applications, and his comfortable supports to those that were afflicted in conscience. In short, that person must have a very soft head, or a very hard heart, or both, that could sit under his ministry unaffected."
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