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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.
Take a survey of its Passions and Affections, and you will find them admirable: see how they are placed by Divine Wisdom in the Soul, some for defence and safety, others ⟨p. 367⟩for delight and pleasure. Anger actuates the Spirits, and rouseth its courage, enabling it to break through difficulties: Fear keeps Sentinel, watching upon all dangers that approach us: Hope forestalls the good, and anticipates the joys of the next Life, and thereby supports and strengthens the Soul under all the discouragements and pressures of the present life: Love unites it to the chiefest Good; he that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God, and God in him: Zeal is the Dagger which love draws in Gods cause and quarrel, to secure it self from sin, and testify its resentments of Gods dishonour.
Take a survey of its Passions and Affections, and you will find them admirable: see how they are placed by Divine Wisdom in the Soul, some for defence and safety, others ⟨p. 367⟩for delight and pleasure. Anger actuates the Spirits, and rouzeth its courage, enabling it to break through difficulties: Fear keeps Sentinel, watching upon all dangers that approach us: Hope forestals the good, and anticipates the joys of the next Life, and thereby supports and strengthens the Soul under all the discouragements and pressures of the present life: Love unites it to the chiefest Good; he that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God, and God in him: Zeal is the Dagger which love draws in Gods cause and quarrel, to secure it self from sin, and testifie its resentments of Gods dishonour.
O what a Divine spark is the Soul of man! well might Christ prefer it in dignity to the whole World.