"The heart of man is his worst part before it be regenerate, and the best afterwards; it is the seat of principles, and fountain of actions. The eye of God is, and the eye of a Christian ought to be, principally fixed upon it.
The greatest difficulty in conversion is to win the heart to God; and the greatest difficulty after conversion, is to keep the heart with God. Here lies the very pinch and stress of religion; here is that that makes the way to life a narrow way, and the gate to heaven a strait gate."
- John Flavel (1628-1691), an English presbyterian that was ejected from his pulpit in 1662 by Charles II. He remained to be one of the most popular of the puritans, his warm and practical writings spiritually feeding many during his times, and many still today.
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