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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.
And for outward wants they shall feel them no more: for putting off the Body, we must needs put off all cares and concerns about it. Meats for the Belly, and the Belly for Meats, God shall destroy both it and them, 1 Cor. 6.13.
6. From distracting fears, into highest security and rest of thoughts for ever more. The fears of God's People are either about their Souls or about their Bodies: the fears they have about their Souls are inexpressible. Two things especially exercise their fears about their Souls. (1) Whether they be really united to Christ. (2) Whether they shall be able to continue and persevere in the ways of Christ to the end: they are afraid of their sincerity and of their stability: and these fears accompany many of Gods People from their Regeneration to their Dissolution. O what would they not give, what would they not do, yea, what would they not endure to get full satisfaction in those things! Every working of Corruption, every discovery made by Temptation, puts them into a fright, and makes them question all that ever was wrought in them.
And as their fears are great about the inward man, so also about the outward man; especially when such bloody preparations seem to be making by the same Enemies that have acted such, and so many bloody Tragedies already in the World.