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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 II.
IS it but a puff of feeble breath, which holds our Souls and Bodies in union, then every man is deeply concerned to make all hast, to take all possible care and pains, to secure a better and more durable habitation, for his Soul in Heaven, whilst yet it sojourns in this frail Tabernacle of the Body.
The time is at hand, when all these comely and active bodies, shall be so many breathless carcasses, no more capable of any use or service for our Souls, than the seats you sit on, or the dead bodies that lye buried under your feet. Your breath is yet in your Nostrils, and all the means and seasons of salvation will expire with it; and then it will be as impossible for the best Minister in the world to help your Souls, as for the ablest Physician to recover your Bodies. As Physic comes too late for the one, so counsels and persuasions for the other.
The time is at hand, when all these comely and active bodies, shall be so many breathless carkasses, no more capable of any use or service for our Souls, than the seats you sit on, or the dead bodies that lye buried under your feet. Your breath is yet in your Nostrils, and all the means and seasons of salvation will expire with it; and then it will be as impossible for the best Minister in the world to help your Souls, as for the ablest Physician to recover your Bodies. As Physick comes too late for the one, so counsels and perswasions for the other.