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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.
The Body hath its part and share in Gods worship, as well as the Soul; but its part is inconsiderable in comparison: Prov. 23.26. My Son, give me thy heart, (i. e.) thy Soul, thy Spirit. The holy and religious acts of the Soul, are suitable to the nature of the Object of worship: John 4.24. God is a spirit, and they that worship him, must worship in Spirit and in truth. Spirits only can have Communion with that great Spirit. They were made spirits for that very end, that they might be capable of converse with the Father of Spirits. They that worship him, must worship in Spirit, and in Truth: That is with inward love, fear, delight, and desires of Soul, that is to worship him in our spirits: And in Truth, (i. e.) according to the rule of his word which prescribes our duty. Spirit, respects the inward power; Truth, the outward form. The former strikes at Hypocrisy, the latter at Superstition, and Idolatry: The one opposes the inventions of our Heads, the other the looseness and formality of our Hearts.
The Body hath its part and share in Gods worship, as well as the Soul; but its part is inconsiderable in comparison: Prov. 23.26. My Son, give me thy heart, (i. e.) thy Soul, thy Spirit. The holy and religious acts of the Soul, are suitable to the nature of the Object of worship: Iohn 4.24. God is a spirit, and they that worship him, must worship in Spirit and in truth. Spirits only can have Communion with that great Spirit. They were made spirits for that very end, that they might be capable of converse with the Father of Spirits. They that worship him, must worship in Spirit, and in Truth: That is with inward love, fear, delight, and desires of Soul, that is to worship him in our spirits: And in Truth, (i. e.) according to the rule of his word which prescribes our duty. Spirit, respects the inward power; Truth, the outward form. The former strikes at Hypocrisie, the latter at Superstition, and Idolatry: The one opposes the inventions of our Heads, the other the loosness and formality of our Hearts.