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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.
The study and knowledge of the Soul was therefore always reckoned a rich and necessary improvement of time. All Ages have magnified these two words, know thy self, as an Oracle descending from Heaven.
No knowledge, saith Bernard, is better than that whereby we know our selves: leave other matters therefore, and search thy self; run ⟨image 3⟩through thy self; make a stand in thy self; let thy thoughts, as it were, circulate, begin and end in thy self. Strain not thy thoughts in vain about other things, thy self being neglected.
The study and knowledge of Jesus Christ, must still be allowed to be most excellent and necessary: But yet the Worth of Necessity of Christ, is unknown to Men, till the value, wants, and dangers of their own Souls be first discovered to them.
The study and knowledge of Iesus Christ, must still be allow'd to be most excellent and necessary: But yet the Worth of Necessity of Christ, is unknown to Men, till the value, wants, and dangers of their own Souls be first discovered to them.