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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.
It was a generous resentment that an Heathen had of the dignity of his own Soul,1 and a very just abhorrence of so vile an abuse of it, when he said, I am greater, and born to greater things, than that I should be a slave to my body.
- 1Major sum, & ad majora natus, quàm ut corporis mei sim mancipium. Seneca.
I know there is a debt of duty the Soul owes to its own body, and few Souls are to be found too careless or dilatory in the discharge thereof: where one Soul needs the Spur in this case, thousands need the Curb. Most Souls are over-heated with zeal for the concerns of the flesh, worn out and spent in its constant drudgery: their whole life is but a serving of divers lusts and pleasures, as the Apostle speaks, Tit. 3.3. ⟨p. 381⟩Imperious lusts are cruel Task-masters, they give the Soul no rest; the more provision the Soul brings in to satisfy them, the more they rage, like fire by the addition of more fuel. What a sad sight is it to see a noble immortal Soul enslaved, 1as the Apostles word is, Tit. 1.7. to wine? to filthy lucre, to a thousand sorts of vassalage; like a Tapster in a common Inn, now running up stairs, and then down, at every ones knock and call?
I know there is a debt of duty the Soul owes to its own body, and few Souls are to be found too careless or dilatory in the discharge thereof: where one Soul needs the Spur in this case, thousands need the Curb. Most Souls are over-heated with zeal for the concerns of the flesh, worn out and spent in its constant drudgery: their whole life is but a serving of divers lusts and pleasures, as the Apostle speaks,