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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.
4 The most spiritual Souls on earth, who live most with God, have, and must have their daily and frequent intermissions. The necessities of the Body, as well as the defectiveness of their graces require and necessitate it to be so. Our hands with Moses will hang down, and grow weary. Our affections will cool and fall, do what we can.
4 The most spiritual Souls on earth, who live most with God, have, and must have their dayly and frequent intermissions. The necessities of the Body, as well as the defectiveness of their graces require and necessitate it to be so. Our hands with Moses will hang down, and grow weary. Our affections will cool and fall, do what we can.
But as the Spirits of just men made perfect know no remissions in the degree, so neither any intermissions in the actings of their grace: They shall serve him day and night in his Temple, Rev. 7.15. You that would purchase the continuance of your spiritual comforts but for a day, with all that you have in this World, will there enjoy them at full, without any intermitting throughout eternity.
5. If the best hearts on earth be at any time more than ordinarily enlarged in spiritual comforts, they need presently some humbling providence to hide pride from their eyes. Even Paul himself must have a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet him. Bernard could never perform any duty with comfortable enlargement, but he seemed to hear his own heart whisper thus, benè fecisti, Bernard, O well done, Bernard.
5. If the best hearts on earth be at any time more than ordinarily enlarged in spiritual comforts, they need presently some humbling providence to hide pride from their eyes. Even Paul himself must have a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet him. Bernard could never perform any duty with comfortable enlargement, but he seemed to hear his own heart whisper thus, benè fecisti, Bernarde, O well done, Bernard.