A39675:1568
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.
The fifth way to Hell shut up by three Considerations.
1. Consider how the Morality of Heathens hath bridled their sensual lusts and appetites, and caused them with a generous disdain to repel those brutish pleasures as things below a man.1 What more foolish, what more base, saith Seneca, than to patch up the good of a reasonable Soul out of things unreasonable. That is the pleasure worthy of a man, not to glut his body, not to irritate those lusts, in whose qui•••ess is our safety. This is the constant Doctrine of all the Stoics.
1. Consider how the Morality of Heathens hath bridled their sensual lusts and appetites, and caused them with a generous disdain to repel those brutish pleasures as things below a man.1 What more foolish, what more base, saith Seneca, than to patch up the good of a reasonable Soul out of things unreasonable. That is the pleasure worthy of a man, not to glut his body, not to irritate those lusts, in whose qui•••ess is our safety. This is the constant Doctrine of all the Stoicks.
- 1Quid staltius, turpi••ve quàm bonum rationalis animi, ex irrationalibus nectere? Sen. Epist. 92.