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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.
Say not,1 no man can save his Soul by his own striving, and therefore 'tis to little purpose, for it is not of him that willeth, or of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy, Rom. 9.16.
Say not,1 no man can save his Soul by his own striving, and therefore 'tis to little purpose, for it is not of him that willeth, or of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy, Rom. 9.16.
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True, this in it self cannot save you, but what then? must we oppose those things which God hath subordinated? bring this home to your natural or civil actions, eating, drinking, Ploughing or Sowing, and see how the consequence will look.
True, this in it self cannot save you, but what then? must we oppose those things which God hath subordinated? bring this home to your natural or civil actions, eating, drinking, Plowing or Sowing, and see how the consequence will look.
1Say not 'tis a mercenary Doctrine, and disparages free Grace; for are not all the enjoyments and comforts of this life confessedly from free Grace, though God hath dispensed them to you in the way of your diligence and industry?