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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
5. From pinching wants to universal Supplies. This is the day in which the Lord abundantly satisfies the desires, and supplies the needs of all his people: there are two sorts of wants upon the People of God, Spiritual and Temporal.
Spiritual wants are the just Complaints of all gracious Souls. You read, 1 Thes. 3.10. of that which is lacking in the Faith of the Saints: there are none but find many things lacking to the perfection of every Grace: Our knowledge of God wants clearness and efficacy: Our Love to God fervour and constancy: our Faith wants strength and stability: Darkness mixes it self with our knowledge, deadness with our love, Unbelief with the purest acts of Faith. Go where you will, you shall find Gods People every where complaining of their Spiritual wants; One of a dark head, another of a dead heart, another of a treacherous Memory. Thus they are loading one another with their Complaints.
Temporal; outward wants pinch hard also upon many of Gods People: the greatest number of them consist of the Poor of this World, Jam. 2.5. Those whose Souls are discharged and acquitted by God, whose Debts are paid by Jesus Christ, may yet be entangled in a brake of Cares and Troubles in the World, and not know which way to turn themselves in their straits and difficulties. But by death the Saints pass from all their wants inward and outward to a state of complete satisfaction, where nothing is lacking: from that day all their Spiritual wants are supplied, for they are now arrived to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, to a perfect man, Eph. 4.13. Now that which is perfect is come, and all that was in part is done way,