PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Whole Works of John Flavel — Volume 2
Flavel, John, 1630?-1691 · 304,299 words · 252 reading sections
Section 241
(4.) The time to strive for salvation is very short and uncertain, Luke xiii. 25. John xii. 35. It will be to no purpose, when the seasons and opportunities of salvation are once over. There is no striving in hell, a death-pang of despair hath seized them, hope is extinguished, and endeavours fail. (5.) Doth not reaso…
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Inf. 7. How great a blessing is the gospel which brings life and immortality to light, the most desirable mercies to immortal souls ! This is the great benefit we receive by it, as the apostle speaks, 2 Tim. i. 10. " Christ hath abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light by the gospel." Life and immorta…
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Son, and Spirit, holy angels, and perfected saints, Heb. xii. 23, " The " spirits of just men made perfect.1'' (3.) From the bondage of corrup- tion to perfect liberty and everlasting freedom ; so much is implied, Heb. xii. 23. " The spirits of just men made perfect." (4.) From all fears, doubtings, and questionings of…
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2. This love of the soul to the body is further discovered by the effects which evidence it, viz. its nourishing and cherishing the body, wrgepzi xai daXw. These two comprize the necessaries for the body, viz. food and raiment. The first signifies to nourish with proper food ; the latter to warm by clothing, as the wor…
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2. The soul discovers its esteem and value for the body in all the fears it hath about it. Did not the soul love it exceedingly, it would never be affrighted for it, and on its account, so much and so often as it is. What a panic fear do the dangers of the body cast the soul into? Isa. vii. 2. When the body is in dange…
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5. Its desire of re-union continuing still with it, in its state of separation, speaks its love to the body. As the soul parted with it in grief and sorrow, so it still retains, even in glory, an inclina- tion to re-union, and waits for a day of re-espousals : and to that sense some searching and judicious men understa…
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Inf. 1. Is it so ? Learn hence the mighty strength and prevalence of divine love, which, overpowering all natural affections, doth not only enable the souls of men to take their separation from the body patiently, but to long- for it ardently, Phil. i. 23. While some need patience to die, others need it as much to live…
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2. Because when life is in hazard, conscience will work in them by way of discouragement ; it will hint the danger of their eternal state to them, and tell them they may cast away their souls for ever in a bravado ; for though the cause they are called to suffer for be good, yet their condition is bad ; and if the cond…
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1. Is thy body which was once hale and vigorous, now become a crazy, sickly, pained body to thee, neither useful to God, nor comfortable to thee ? a tabernacle to groan and sigh in ; and little hopes it will be recovered to a better temper; God hath ordained this to make thee willing to be divorced from it : the less d…
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2. And the injury is yet greater, if we consider it as the Spirit's temple. On this ground the apostle strongly convinceth and dis- suadeth Christians from these abuses of the body, 1 Cor. vi. 15, 16. He argues from the dignity God will put upon our bodies by the resurrection, ver. 13, 14. They are to be transformed, a…
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It was a rare expression of a Heathen, Major sum, et ad majora natus, quam ut corporis met sim mancipium ; I am greater, and born to greater things, than that I should be a slave to my body. And it was the saying of a pious divine, when he felt the flesh re-* bellious and wanton, Ego Jaciam, aselle, ut ne cdlcitres ; I…
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* Here the soul receives a deadly wound upon itself, to ward it off from the bodj So did Spira. ■ - A TREATISE OF THE SOUL OF MAX, (4.) In a word ; it appears we love them fondly and irregularly, in that we cannot with any patience think of death and separation from them. How do some men fright at the very name of de…
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