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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.
Truth like an Orient Pearl in the bottom of a River would have discovered it self by its native lustre and radiancy, had not the feet of Heathen Philosophers, cunning Atheists, and daring School Divines disturbed and fouled the stream.
Truth like an Orient Pearl in the bottom of a River would have discovered it self by its native lustre and radiancy, had not the feet of Heathen Philosophers, cunning Atheists, and daring School Divines disturbed and foul'd the stream.
2. And as the difficulties of the Subject are many, so many have been the interruptions and Avocations I have met with whilst it was under my hand: Which I mention for no other end but to procure a more favourable Censure from you, if it appear less exact than you expected to find it. Such as it is I do with much respect and affection, tender it to your hands, humbly requesting the blessing of the Spirit may accompany it to your hearts. If you will but allow your selves to think close to the matter before you, I doubt not but ⟨image 6⟩you may find somewhat in it apt both to inform your minds, and quicken your affections. I know you have a multiplicity of business under your hands, but yet I hope your great concern makes all others daily to give place, and that how clamorous and importunate soever the Affairs of this World be, you both can and do find time to sit alone and bethink your selves of a much more important business you have to do.
My Friends, we are Borderers upon Eternity; we live upon the Confines of the Spiritual and Immaterial World. We must shortly be associated with bodiless Beings, and shall have (after a few days are past) no more concerns for Meat, Drink, and Sleep, buying and selling, Habitations and Relations, than the Angels of God now have. Beside, we live here in a State of Trial. Man (as Scaliger fitly calls him) is Utriusque Mundi nexus, one in whom both Worlds do meet, his Body participates of the lower, his Soul of the upper World. Hence it is he finds such tugging and pulling, this way, and that way; upward, and downward; both Worlds