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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.
You cannot think of your own deaths with pleasure, no nor yet with patience: Well, take heed, lest this draw down such troubles upon you, as shall make you at last to say with Job, chap. 10. v. 1. My Soul is weary of my life. An expression much like that, 2 Sam. 1.9. Anguish is come upon me, because my life is whole in me. My Soul is hardened, or become cruel against my life as the Chaldee renders it.
You cannot think of your own deaths with pleasure, no nor yet with patience: Well, take heed, lest this draw down such troubles upon you, as shall make you at last to say with Iob, chap. 10. v. 1. My Soul is weary of my life. An expression much like that, 2 Sam. 1.9. Anguish is come upon me, because my life is whole in me. My Soul is hardened, or become cruel against my life as the Chaldee renders it.
There is a twofold weariness of life, one from an excellency of spirit, a noble principle, the ardent love of Jesus Christ, Phil. 1.23. I desire to be dissolved, and to be with Christ. Another from the mere pressures of affliction and anguish of Spirit, under heavy and successive strokes from the hand of God and men. Is it not more excellent and desirable to groan for death under a pressure of love to Christ, than of afflictions from Christ?
There is a twofold weariness of life, one from an excellency of spirit, a noble principle, the ardent love of Jesus Christ, Phil. 1.23. I desire to be dissolved, and to be with Christ. Another from the meer pressures of affliction and anguish of Spirit, under heavy and successive stroaks from the hand of God and men. Is it not more excellent and desireable to groan for death under a pressure of love to Christ, than of afflictions from Christ?