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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 5: Consideration V.
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Consideration V.
Few, yea very few, are found furnished •••h Wisdom, Experience and Faithfulness, to give dying Persons any considerable assistance in Soul affairs: it may be, there may be found among the Visitants of the Sick, now and then, a person who hath a word of Wisdom in his heart; but then either he wants opportunity, or courage and faithfulness to do the part of a true Spiritual friend. Elihu describes the person so qualified as he ought for this work, Job 33.23, 24. and calls him one among a thousand. Some are too close and reserved, others too trifling and impertinent: Some are willing, but want Ability; others are able, but want faithfulness: Some cut too deep by uncharitable censoriousness, others skin over the wound too slightly, speaking Peace where God and Conscience speak none. So that little help is to be expected.
Few, yea very few, are found furnished •••h Wisdom, Experience and Faithfulness, to give dying Persons any considerable assistance in Soul affairs: it may be, there may be found among the Visitants of the Sick, now and then, a person who hath a word of Wisdom in his heart; but then either he wants opportunity, or courage and faithfulness to do the part of a true Spiritual friend. Elihu describes the person so qualified as he ought for this work, Iob 33.23, 24. and calls him one among a thousand. Some are too close and reserved, others too trifling and impertinent: Some are willing, but want Ability; others are able, but want faithfulness: Some cut too deep by uncharitable censoriousness, others skin over the wound too slightly, speaking Peace where God and Conscience speak none. So that little help is to be expected.