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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.
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, 1 Cor. 7.29. In a few days we must be stript much nearer, even out of our own Bodies by death.
God may also separate betwixt me and my health by sickness, so that the pleasure of this World shall be cut off from me; but sickness is not death, though it be a prelude and step towards it: I may well bear this with patience, who must submissively bear sharper pains than these ere long. Yea, and well may I bear this submissively, considering that by such embittering, and weaning providences God is preparing me for a much easier dissolution, than if I should live at ease in the Body all my days, till death come to make so great and sudden a change upon me.