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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 V.
IF God create and inspire the reasonable ••ul immediately, this should instruct and incise all Christian Parents, to pray earnestly for their Children, not only when they are born into the world; but when they are first conceived in the Womb.
It is of great concernment both to us, and our Children, not only to receive them from the womb, with bodies perfectly and comely fashioned; but also with such Souls inspired into them, whereby they may glorify God to all Eternity. 'Tis natural to Parents to desire to have their children full and perfect in all their bodily members, and it would be a grievous affliction, to see them come into the world defective, monstrous, and mis-shapen births; should a Leg, an Arm, an Eye be wanting, such a defect would make their lives miserable, and the Parents uncomfortable. But how few are concerned, with what Souls they are born into the world! Good God! (saith *Musculus) how few shall we find, who are equally solicitous to have such children as may live piously and honestly, as they are to leave them Inheritances, upon which they may live splendidly and bravely? It pleaseth us to see our own Image stamped upon their bodies; but O! how few pray, even whilst they are in the womb, that their Souls may in due time bear the image of the heavenly, and not animate and use the members of their bodies, as weapons of unrighteousness against the God that formed them?
It is of great concernment both to us, and our Children, not only to receive them from the womb, with bodies perfectly and comely fashioned; but also with such Souls inspired into them, whereby they may glorifie God to all Eternity. 'Tis natural to Parents to desire to have their children full and perfect in all their bodily members, and it would be a grievous affliction, to see them come into the world defective, monstrous, and mis-shapen births; should a Leg, an Arm, an Eye be wanting, such a defect would make their lives miserable, and the Parents uncomfortable. But how few are concerned, with what Souls they are born into the world! Good God! (saith