A39675:1505
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.
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 ⟨p. 391⟩all earthly things to the Soul of man: I am the bread of life, saith Christ. A Soul can feed and feast it self upon Christ and the Promises, these are things full of marrow and fatness, substantial and proper Soul-nutriment.
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 lickt up by the fire, and not the least nutriment left in the ashes; and such are ⟨p. 391⟩all earthly things to the Soul of man: I am the bread of life, saith Christ. A Soul can feed and feast it self upon Christ and the Promises, these are things full of marrow and fatness, substantial and proper Soul-nutriment.
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