A39675:1574
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 sixth way of losing the Soul opened.
VI. There are also innumerable Souls lost for ever by the distracting cares of this world, which eat up all their time, thoughts, and studies, so that there is no room for Christ, or one serious hour about Salvation. It is too true an observation which Sir Walter Raleigh makes upon the common Mechanics and poor Labourers, their bodies are the Anvils of pain, and their Souls the Hives of unnumbered cares and sorrows, whilst the voluptuous and rich spend their time and ⟨p. 416⟩studies in purveying for new pleasures, and filling their heads with projects of that nature; the poorer sort have their heads and hearts filled day and night with anxious thoughts and cares how to get bread, pay their Rent or debts, and struggle through the miserable necessities that pinch them on every side; many Children it may be to provide for, and little or nothing out of which to make it: here is Brick must be made, and no straw to make it of: he borrows here to pay there; debts increase, and abilities decrease: he toils his body all the day, and when his tired carcass calls for rest to enable him for new work tomorrow, the cares of the world invade him upon his bed, and keep him sighing or musing there, when poor man he had load enough before for one.
VI. There are also innumerable Souls lost for ever by the distracting cares of this world, which eat up all their time, thoughts, and studies, so that there is no room for Christ, or one serious hour about Salvation. It is too true an observation which Sir Walter Raleigh makes upon the common Mechanicks and poor Labourers, their bodies are the Anvils of pain, and their Souls the Hives of unnumbred cares and sorrows, whilst the voluptuous and rich spend their time and