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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 VII.
IF breath be the tie betwixt Soul and Body, How are we concerned to improve, and draw forth, the precious breath of Ministers and Christians, whilst it is yet in their Nostrils.
IF breath be the tye betwixt Soul and Body, How are we concerned to improve, and draw forth, the precious breath of Ministers and Christians, whilst it is yet in their Nostrills.
The breath of many Ministers is judicially stopped already, their breath serves to little other use than to preserve their own lives; it will be stopped ere long by death, and then those excellent treasures of Gifts and Graces, wherewith they are richly furnished, will be gone out of your reach, never to be further useful to your Souls. You should do ⟨p. 85⟩by them therefore (as one aptly speaks) as Scholars do by some choice Book they have borrowed, and must return in a few days to its Owner: They diligently read it Night and Day, and carefully transcribe the most useful and excellent Notes they can find in it, that they may make them their own, when the Book is called for out of their hands.
The breath of many Ministers is judicially stopt already, their breath serves to little other use than to preserve their own lives; it will be stopt ere long by death, and then those excellent treasures of Gifts and Graces, wherewith they are richly furnished, will be gone out of your reach, never to be further useful to your Souls. You should do ⟨p. 85⟩by them therefore (as one aptly speaks) as Scholars do by some choice Book they have borrowed, and must return in a few days to its Owner: They diligently read it Night and Day, and carefully transcribe the most useful and excellent Notes they can find in it, that they may make them their own, when the Book is called for out of their hands.