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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.
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.
The disaffectedness and aversation of men to the study of their own Souls, is the more to be admired; not only because of the weight and necessity of it, but the alluring pleasure and sweetness that is found therein. What *Cardan speaks is experimentally felt by many, that scarce any thing is more pleasant and delectable to the Soul of man, than to know what he is, what he may, and shall be; and what those Divine and Supreme things are which he is to enjoy after death, and the Vicissitudes of this present World: For we are Creatures conscious to our selves, of an immortal Nature, and that we have something about us which must overlive this mortal flesh; and is therefore ever and anon some way or other hinting and intimating to us its expectations ⟨image 3⟩