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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
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2. No grace is or can be acted here, without the clog of a contrary corruption upon its heel, Rom. 7.21. When I would do good, evil is present with me. Every beam of faith is presently darkened by a cloud of unbelief, Mark 9.24. Lord I believe, help thou my unbelief. 1We often read in the Book of experience (saith one) what an inconstant fickle thing the heart is in duties: Now it is with us, by and by it's fled away and gone; we know not where to find it: It is constant only in its inconstancy and lubricity. There is iniquity in our most holy things, which needs pardon, Exod. 28.38. Our best duties have enough in them to damn us, as well as our worst sins, but in that perfect state above, grace flows purely out of the Soul, as beams do from the Sun, or crystal streams from the purest Fountain. No impure, or imperfect acts proceed from Spirits made perfect.
2. No grace is or can be acted here, without the clog of a contrary corruption upon its heel, Rom. 7.21. When I would do good, evil is present with me. Every beam of faith is presently darkned by a cloud of unbelief, Mark 9.24. Lord I believe, help thou my unbelief. 1We often read in the Book of experience (saith one) what an inconstant fickle thing the heart is in duties: Now it is with us, by and by it's fled away and gone; we know not where to find it: It is constant only in its inconstancy and lubricity. There is iniquity in our most holy things, which needs pardon, Exod. 28.38. Our best duties have enough in them to damn us, as well as our worst sins, but in that perfect state above, grace flows purely out of the Soul, as beams do from the Sun, or crystal streams from the purest Fountain. No impure, or imperfect acts proceed from Spirits made perfect.