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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.
Moreover, I am fully convinced by long and often experience how unsteady, and inconstant the frames and tempers of the best hearts are; and that if it be not full home, yet it is next to an impossibility to fix them in such a temper as this I aim at, is. Where is that man to be found, who after the revolutions of many years, and in those years, various dispensations of providence without him, altering his condition, and greater variety of temptations within; can yet say, notwithstanding all these various aspects and positions, his heart hath still held one steady and invariable tenor and course.
Moreover, I am fully convinced by long and often experience how unsteady, and inconstant the frames and tempers of the best hearts are; and that if it be not full home, yet it is next to an impossibility to fix them in such a temper as this I aim at, is. Where is that man to be found, who after the revolutions of many years, and in those years, various dispensations of providence without him, altering his condition, and greater variety of temptations within; can yet say, notwithstanding all these various aspects and positions, his heart hath still held one steddy and invariable tenour and course.
Alas, there be very few (if any) of such sound and Athletic temper of mind, whose pulse beats with an even stroke, through all inequalities of condition, alike free and willing at one time, as another, to be unclothed of the Body, and to be with Christ. This height of faith, and depth of mortification; this strength of love to Christ, and ardour of holy desire, are degrees of grace to which very few attain.
Alas, there be very few (if any) of such sound and Athletick temper of mind, whose pulse beats with an even stroke, through all inequalities of condition, alike free and willing at one time, as another, to be uncloathed of the Body, and to be with Christ. This heighth of faith, and depth of mortification; this strength of love to Christ, and ardour of holy desire, are degrees of grace to which very few attain.