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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.
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 ⟨image 6⟩as it were contending for this invaluable prize, the precious Soul. All Christs Ordinances are instituted, and his Officers ordained for no other use or end, but the Salvation of Souls: Books are valuable according to their Conducibility to this end. How rich a Reward of my Labours shall I account it, if this Treatise of the Soul, may but promote the Sanctification and Salvation of any Readers Soul!
My Friends, we are Borderers upon Eternity; we live upon the Confines of the Spiritual and Immaterial World. We must shortly be associated with bodyless 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 Tryal. 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 ⟨image 6⟩as it were contending for this invaluable prize, the precious Soul. All Christs Ordinances are instituted, and his Officers ordained for no other use or end, but the Salvation of Souls: Books are valuable according to their Conducibility to this end. How rich a Reward of my Labours shall I account it, if this Treatise of the Soul, may but promote the Sanctification and Salvation of any Readers Soul!