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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.
But I doubt when all is said, we are where we were, all this suffices not to overcome the Regrets and Reluctancies of Nature; still the matter sticks in our minds, and we cannot conquer our disinclined Wills in this matter. What is the ⟨p. 332⟩matter? Where lie the Rubs and Hinderances? O that God would remove them at last!
But I doubt when all is said, we are where we were, all this suffices not to overcome the Regrets and Reluctancies of Nature; still the matter sticks in our minds, and we cannot conquer our disinclined Wills in this matter. What is the ⟨p. 332⟩matter? Where lie the Rubbs and Hinderances? O that God would remove them at last!
1This is a common Plea with many, I am not ready and fit to die; were I ready I should be willing to be gone.
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1(1) How long soever you live in the Body, there will be somewhat still out of order, something still to do: for you must be in a state of imperfection whilst you remain here, and according to this Plea, you will never be willing to die. (2) Your willingness to be dissolved, and to be with Christ, is one special part of your fitness for death: and till you attain it in some good measure, you are not so fit to die, as you should be. (3) If you be in Christ, you have a fundamental fitness for death, though you may want some circumstantial Preparatives. And as to all that is wanting in your sanctification or obedience now, it will be completed in a moment upon your dissolution.