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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
MATTH. 16.26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole… › Doctrine 1: DOCT. I.
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.
There you shall find a Mind susc•ptive of all light, •oth natural and spiritual, shining as […] Candle of God in the inner man, closing with Truth as the Iron doth with the attractive Lodestone, a Shop in which all Arts and Sciences are laboured and formed: what are all the famous Libraries and Monuments of Learning, but so many Systems of thoughts laboured and perfected in the active inquisitive minds of men? Truth is its natural and delectable object, it pursues eagerly after it, and even spends it self and the body too in the chase and prosecution of Truth:1 when it lies deep, as a subterranean treasure, the mind sends out innumerable thoughts re-enforcing each other in thick successions, to dig for and compass that invaluable treasure; if it be disguised by misrepresentations and vulgar prejudice, and trampled in the dirt under that disguise, there is an ability in the mind to discern it by some lines and features, which are well known to it, and both own, honour and vindicate it under all that dirt and obloquy, with more respect; than a man will take up a piece of Gold▪ or a sparkling Diamond out of the gutter: it searches after it by many painful deductions of reason,2 and triumphs more in the discovery of it, than in all earthly treasures; no gratification of sense like that of the mind, when it grasps its prey for which it hunted.
There you shall find a Mind susc•ptive of all light, •oth natural and spiritual, shining as 〈…〉 Candle of God in the inner man, closing with Truth as the Iron doth with the attractive Loadstone, a Shop in which all Arts and Sciences are laboured and formed: what are all the famous Libraries and Monuments of Learning, but so many Systems of thoughts laboured and perfected in the active inquisitive minds of men? Truth is its natural and delectable object, it pur•u•s eagerly after it, and even spends it self and the body too in the chase and prosecution of Truth: