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Pneumatologia, a treatise of the soul of man
Pneumatologia, a treatise of the soul of man wherein the divine original, excellent and immortal nature of the soul are opened, its love and inclination to the body, with the necessity of its separation from it, considered and improved, the existence, operations, and states of separated souls, both in Heaven and Hell, immediately after death, asserted, discussed, and variously applied, divers knotty and difficult questions about departed souls, both philosophical, and theological, stated and determined, the invaluable preciousness of humane souls, and the various artifices of Satan (their professed enemy) to destroy them, discovered, and the great duty and interest of all men, seasonable and heartily to comply with the most great and gracious design of the Father, Son, and Spirit, for the salvation of their souls, argued and pressed / by John Flavel ...Pneumatologia, a treatise of the soul of man wherein the divine original, excellent and immortal nature of the soul are opened, its love and inclination to the body, with the necessity of its separation from it, considered and improved, the existence, operations, and states of separated souls, both in Heaven and Hell, immediately after death, asserted, discussed, and variously applyed, divers knotty and difficult questions about departed souls, both philosophical, and theological, stated and determined, the invaluable preciousness of humane souls, and the various artifices of Satan (their professed enemy) to destroy them, discovered, and the great duty and interest of all men, seasonable and heartily to comply with the most great and gracious design of the Father, Son, and Spirit, for the salvation of their souls, argued and pressed / by John Flavel ...
London: printed for Francis Tyton, 1685
TEXT. › The USES of the Point. › Inference 3 › Consideration 4: Consideration IV.
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Consideration IV.
There is no man living but hath something to do for his own Soul in a dying hour, and something for others also.
Suppose the best that can be supposed, that the Soul be in real Union with Christ, and that Union be also clear, yet it is seldom found but there are some assaults of Satan: or if not, yet how many Relations and Friends need our experiences and Counsels, at such a time? How many things shall we have to do, after our great and main work is done? And others have a great deal more to do, though as safe as the former. O the Knots and Objections that are then to be dissolved and answered! The unusual Onsets and Assaults of Satan, that are then to be resisted! And yet most dying persons have much more upon their hands than either of the former. The whole work of Repentance and Faith is to do, when time is even done.
Suppose the best that can be supposed, that the Soul be in real Union with Christ, and that Union be also clear, yet it is seldom found but there are some assaults of Satan: or if not, yet how many Relations and Friends need our experiences and Counsels, at such a time? How many things shall we have to do, after our great and main work is done? And others have a great deal more to do, though as safe as the former. O the Knots and Objections that are then to be dissolv'd and answered! The unusual Onsets and Assaults of Satan, that are then to be resisted! And yet most dying persons have much more upon their hands than either of the former. The whole work of Repentance and Faith is to do, when time is even done.