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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.
1The Apostle, Phil. 3.8, 9 calls the things of this World Dogs meat, and judge if that be proper food for such noble and high-born Creatures as our Souls are? An immaterial Being can never live upon material things; they are no bread for Souls, as the Prophet speaks, Isa. 55 2. Why do ye spend money, (i. e.) time and pains, thoughts and cares) for that which is not bread? Your Souls can no more live upon carnal, than your bodies can upon spiritual things. Earthly things have a double defect in them, by reason whereof they are called things of nought, Amos 6.13. of no worth or value: they are neither suitable nor durable; and therefore in the Souls eye not valuable.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew], quasi [Greek or Hebrew], id quod à nobis rejectum projicitur canibus.〈non-Latin alphabet〉, quasi 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, id quod à nobis rejectum projicitur canibus.
1. They are not suitable. What are Corn and Wine, Gold and Silver, Pleasures and Honours to the Soul? The body and bodily senses can find somewhat of refreshment in them, but not the Spirit: that which is bread to the body, affords no more nourishment to the Soul than wind or ashes, Isa. 44.20.1 He feedeth of ashes. Ashes are that light and dry matter into which fuel is reduced by the fire: the fuel before it was burnt, had nothing in it fit for nourishment, or if the sap or juice that was in it, might in any respect be useful that way, yet all that is devoured and licked up by the fire, and not the least nutriment left in the ashes; and such are