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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.
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.
I have now many comfortable Relatives in the World, Wife, Children Kindred, and Friends; God hath made them pleasant to me, but he may bereave me of all these. ⟨p. 299⟩Doth not Providence ring such changes all the World over! Are not all Kingdoms, Cities, and Towns full of the sighs and laments of Widows, Orphans, and Friends bereaved of their pleasant and useful Relations? But if God will have it so, 'tis our duty to bound our sorrows, remembering the time is short, 1 Cor. 7.29. In a few days we must be stripped much nearer, even out of our own Bodies by death.
I have now many comfortable Relatives in the World, Wife, Children Kindred, and Friends; God hath made them pleasant to me, but he may bereave me of all these. ⟨p. 299⟩Doth not Providence ring such changes all the World over! Are not all Kingdoms, Cities, and Towns full of the sighs and laments of Widows, Orphans, and Friends bereaved of their pleasant and useful Relations? But if God will have it so, 'tis our duty to bound our sorrows, remembring the time is short,