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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.
VII. The Soul of man is not only endued with an Understanding, 7and Will: but also with various Affections and Passions, which are of great use and service to it; and speak ⟨p. 28⟩the excellency of its nature. They are originally designed and appointed for the happiness of man, in the promoting and securing his chiefest good; to which purpose they have a natural aptitude: For the true Happiness and Rest of the Soul not being in it self, nor in any other creature, but in God, the Soul must necessarily move out of it self, and beyond all other created Beings, to find and enjoy its true felicity in him. The Soul considered at a distance from God, its true Rest and happiness, is furnished and provided with desire and hope to carry it on, and quicken its motion towards him. These are the arms it is to stretch out towards him, in a state of absence from him. And seeing it is to meet with many obstacles, Enemies, and difficulties in its course, which hinder its motion, and hazard its fruition of him,2 God hath planted in it, Fear, Grief, Indignation, Jealousy, Anger, &c. to grapple with, and break through those intercurrent difficulties, and hazards. By these weapons in the hand of grace, it conflicts with that which opposes its passage to God, as the Apostle expresseth that holy fret and passion of the Corinthians, and what a fume their souls were in, by the gracious motion of the irascible appetite, 2 Cor. 7.11. For behold this self same thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort; what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of your selves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge? Much like the raging and struggling of Waters, which are interrupted in their course by some dam, or obstacle, which they strive to bear down, and sweep away before them.
VII. The Soul of man is not only endued with an Vnderstanding, 7and Will: but also with various Affections and Passions, which are of great use and service to it; and speak