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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.
Temptations are of two sorts: Ordinary and mediate by Satan's exciting and managing our Corruptions, by presenting Objects to them; or extraordinary and immediate, like fiery darts shot immediately out of Hell into the Soul, which puts it all into a flame and Combustion: Of the former you read in Jam. 1.14. the latter in Eph. 6.16. and upon the account of the one and other the People of God are weary of their lives: think what a grief it must be to a Soul that loves God, to feel in it self such things as militate against and wound the Name and Honour of God, which is, and ought to be dearer to it than its life.
Temptations are of two sorts: Ordinary and mediate by Satans exciteing and manageing our Corruptions, by presenting Objects to them; or extraordinary and immediate, like fiery darts shot immediately out of Hell into the Soul, which puts it all into a flame and Combustion: Of the former you read in Iam. 1.14. the latter in Eph. 6.16. and upon the account of the one and other the People of God are weary of their lives: think what a grief it must be to a Soul that loves God, to feel in it self such things as militate against and wound the Name and Honour of God, which is, and ought to be dearer to it than its life.
But by the door of Death every gracious Soul makes it escape from the tempting power of Satan: he can no more touch or affect the Soul with any temptation, than we can batter the Body of the Sun with Snow-balls: for as Satan can have no access to that place of Blessedness, where the Souls of the Saints are; so if he could, he can find nothing in them to fasten a temptation upon. The Schoolmen give this as the reason, why the Saints in Heaven are impeccable, because all their thoughts and affections are everlastingly fixed in, and employed about the blessed God; whose face they continually behold in Glory.