A39675:1626
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.
O therefore if you have any regard to the precious Souls of men, live up to the rules of your Profession. O be blame, less and harmless, the Sons of God without rebuke in the midst of a perverse and froward generation: let the heavenliness of your Conversation stop those mouths that accuse you as men of a worldly Spirit: let them see by your moderation in seeking it, your patience in losing it, your readiness in distributing it, that it is a groundless calumny under which your Names suffer. Let them see by your apparel, company, and discourses you are not such proud lofty Spirits as you are represented to be. Convince them by your flexibleness to all things that are lawful and expedient, by manifesting as much as in you lieth, that it is the pure bond and tie of Conscience which keeps you from compliance in all other things, and by your meekness in suffering for such noncompliance, that you are not such turbulent, factious Incendiaries, as the wicked world slanderously reports you to be. Convince the world by your exact righteousness in all your civil dealings, and by the lip of truth in all your promises and engagements, that you have the fear of God in your hearts, as well as the Livery of Christianity upon your backs. In a word, so live that none may have just ground to believe the impudent slanders the Devil raises in the world against you. Let your light so shine before men, that they may glorify your Father which is in Heaven. Without your care and circumspection, the shedding of a world of precious Soul-blood can never be prevented.
O therefore if you have any regard to the precious Souls of men, live up to the rules of your Profession. O be blame, less and harmless, the Sons of God without rebuke in the midst of a perverse and froward generation: let the heavenliness of your Conversation stop those mouths that accuse you as men of a worldly Spirit: let them see by your moderation in seeking it, your patience in losing it, your readiness in distributing it, that it is a groundless calumny under which your Names suffer. Let them see by your apparel, company, and discourses you are not such proud lofty Spirits as you are represented to be. Convince them by your flexibleness to all things that are lawful and expedient, by manifesting as much as in you lieth, that it is the pure bond and tye of Conscience which keeps you from compliance in all other things, and by your meekness in suffering for such noncompliance, that you are not such turbulent, factious Incendiaries, as the wicked world slanderously reports you to be. Convince the world by your exact righteousness in all your civil dealings, and by the lip of truth in all your promises and engagements, that you have the fear of God in your hearts, as well as the Livery of Christianity upon your backs. In a word, so live that none may have just ground to believe the impudent slanders the Devil raises in the world against you. Let your light so shine before men, that they may glorifie your Father which is in Heaven. Without your care and circumspection, the shedding of a world of precious Soul-blood can never be prevented.