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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 VI.
Let your breath promote the spiritual life of others, as well as maintain the natural life in your selves.
LEt your breath promote the spiritual life of others, as well as maintain the natural life in your selves.
'Though the maintaining of your natural life, be one end why God gave you breath, yet it is not the only, or principal end of it. Your breath must be food to others, as well as life to you. Prov. 10.21. The lips of the righteous feed many. It will be comfortable to resign that breath to God at death, which hath been instrumental to his glory in this life. It was no low encomium Christ gave of the Church, when he said, Cant. 4.11. Thy lips, O my Spouse, drop as the Honeycomb, Honey and Milk are under thy Tongue. Sweet, wholesome, and pleasant words dropped from her lips. They drop (saith Christ) as the Honeycomb. Some drops ever and anon fall actually, and others hang at the same time prepared and ready to fall. Such a prepared and habitual Disposition, should every Christian continually have. Your Words may stick upon mens hearts to their Edification and Salvation, when you are in your Graves. Your Tongues may now sow that precious seed, which may spring-up to the praise of God, though you may not live to reap the comfort of it in this World, John 4.36, 37