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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 IV.
Doth God maintain your life by breath? let not that breath destroy your life, which God gave to preserve it.
DOth God maintain your life by breath? let not that breath destroy your life, which God gave to preserve it.
No man can live without breath, and yet some might live longer than they do, if their breath were better employed. Some mens throats have been cut by their own Tongues,1 as the Arabian Proverb intimates. Life and death (saith Solomon) are in the power of the Tongue. Critics observe, that a Word, and a Plague, grow upon the same root in the Hebrew Tongue? 'Tis certain, that some mens breath hath been baneful poison both to themselves and others: It was a word that cut off the life of Adonijah, • King 2.23. and thousands since his day, have dyed upon the point of the same weapon. 'Tis therefore wholesome ⟨p. 81⟩advice that is given us Psalm 34.12. What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days that he may see good; keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
No man can live without breath, and yet some might live longer than they do, if their breath were better imployed. Some mens throats have been cut by their own Tongues,1 as the Arabian Proverb intimates. Life and death (saith Solomon) are in the power of the Tongue. Criticks observe, that a Word, and a Plague, grow upon the same root in the Hebrew Tongue? 'Tis certain, that some mens breath hath been baneful poison both to themselves and others: It was a word that cut off the life of Adonijah, King 2.23. and thousands since his day, have dyed upon the point of the same weapon. 'Tis therefore wholsome