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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 IX.
How much are the spirits of men sunk by sin, below the dignity and excellency of their Nature?
HOw much are the spirits of men sunk by sin, below the dignity and excellency of their Nature?
Our Souls are Spirits by nature, yet have they naturally no delight in things spiritual: They decline that which is homogeneal and suitable to Spirits, and relish nothing but what is carnal and unsuitable to them. How are its affections inverted and misplaced by sin? That noble spiritual Heaven-born creature the Soul, whose Element and Centre God alone should be, is now fallen into a deep Oblivion both of God, and it self; and wholly spends its strength in the pursuit of sensual and earthly enjoyments, and becomes a mere drudge and slave to the body. Carnal things now measure out and govern its delights and hopes, its fears and sorrows. O how unseemly is it, to b•••ld such an high-born spirit lackeying up and down the Wo••d in the service of the perishing flesh? Their heart (saith the Prophet) goeth after their Covetousness, Ezek. 33.31. as a Servant at the beck or nod of his Master.
Our Souls are Spirits by nature, yet have they naturally no delight in things spiritual: They decline that which is homogeneal and suitable to Spirits, and rellish nothing but what is carnal and unsuitable to them. How are its affections inverted and misplaced by sin? That noble spiritual Heaven-born creature the Soul, whose Element and Centre God alone should be, is now fallen into a deep Oblivion both of God, and it self; and wholly spends its strength in the pursuit of sensual and earthly enjoyments, and becomes a meer drudge and slave to the body. Carnal things now measure out and govern its delights and hopes, its fears and sorrows. O how unseemly is it, to bld such an high-born spirit lackying up and down the Wod in the service of the perishing flesh? Their heart (saith the Prophet) goeth after their Covetousness,