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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.
Inference V.
IF our Souls and Bodies must be separated shortly, how patiently should we bear all lesser that may or will be made betwixt us and any other enjoyments in this World.
No union is so intimate strict, and dear, as that betwixt your Souls and Bodies. All your relations and enjoyments in this World, hang looser from your Souls, than your Bodies do; and if it be your duty patiently and submissively to suffer a painful parting pull from your Bodies; it is doubtless your duty to suffer meekly and patiently a separation from other things, which are but a prelude to it, and a mere shadow of it. 'Tis good to put such cases to our selves in the midst of our pleasant enjoyments.
No union is so intimate strict, and dear, as that betwixt your Souls and Bodies. All your relations and enjoyments in this World, hang looser from your Souls, than your Bodies do; and if it be your duty patiently and submissively to suffer a painful parting pull from your Bodies; it is doubtless your duty to suffer meekly and patiently a separation from other things, which are but a prelude to it, and a meer shadow of it. 'Tis good to put such cases to our selves in the midst of our pleasant enjoyments.