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John Flavel was a British Presbyterian clergyman in the seventeenth century, a time of religious persecution in England. Charles II passed the Act of Uniformity in 1662, forcing all ministers not under the Church of England to serve in secret, including Flavel. Persecuted for not following the orders of the Church of England, Flavel was a faithful minister and worked hard to serve his...

King; but he could not put himself into either of these; for if so, he had acted without commission, and consequently all he did had been invalid; Heb. 5:5. “Christ glorified not himself to be made an High-Priest, but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son.” A commission therefore to act authoritatively, in these offices, being necessary to our recovery, the Father engages to him to seal him such a threefold commission. He promiseth to invest him with an eternal and royal Priesthood, Psal. 110:4.
Volume 1, Pages 56–57