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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.
Argument IV.
THE consideration of what we part from, and what we go to, should make the medium by which we pass from so much evil, to so great good, lovely and desirable in our eyes, how unpleasing or bitter soever it be in it self.
THE consideration of what we part from, and what we go to, should make the medium by which we pass from so much evil, to so great good, lovely and desireable in our eyes, how unpleasing or bitter soever it be in it self.
No man desires Physic for it self. There is no pleasure in bitter Pills and loathsome Potions, except what rises from the end, viz, the disburdening of Nature, and recovery of health: and this gives it a value with the Sick and pained. Under a like consideration is death desired by sick and pained Souls, who find it better to dye once, than groan under burdens continually.
No man desires Physick for it self. There is no pleasure in bitter Pills and loathsome Potions, except what rises from the end, viz, the disburthening of Nature, and recovery of health: and this gives it a value with the Sick and pained. Under a like consideration is death desired by sick and pained Souls, who find it better to dye once, than groan under burthens continually.