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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.
Inference VIII.
IF the Soul be so invaluably precious, then it is a rational and well advised resolution and practice to expose all other things to hazard, yea to certain less for the preservation of the more precious Soul.
'Tis better our bodies and all their comforts should perish, than that our Souls should perish for their sakes. Nature it self teacheth us to offer an hand or arm to the stroke of a Sword, to save a blow from the head, or put by a thrust at the heart. It is recorded to the praise of those three Worthies, Dan. 3.28. That they yielded their bodies that they might not serve nor worship any God, except their own God. By this rule all the Martyrs of Christ governed themselves, still slighting and exposing to destruction their bodies and Estates to preserve their Souls, reckoning to save nothing by Religion but their Souls, and that they had lost nothing, if they could save them: They loved not their lives unto the death, Rev. 12.11.