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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 VIII.
ARE Souls and Bodies tacked together by so frail a thing as a puff of breath? How vain and groundless then are all those Pleasures men take in their Carnal Projects and Designs in this World!
ARE Souls and Bodies tack'd together by so frail a thing as a puff of breath? How vain and groundless then are all those Pleasures men take in their Carnal Projects and Designs in this World!
We lay the Plot and Design of our future earthly felicity in our own thoughts, we mould and contrive a design for a long and pleasant life. The model for raising an Estate is already formed in our thoughts, and we have not patience to defer our pleasure till the accomplishment of it, but presently draw a train of pleasing Consequents from this Chimaera, and our thoughts can stoop to nothing less than sitting down all the remainder of our days, in the very lap of delight and pleasure: Forgetting that our breath is all the while in our Nostrils, and may expire the next moment; and if it do, the structure of all our Expectations and Projects come to nothing in the same moment: His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his dust; and in that very day his thoughts perish. Psal. 146.4. The whole frame of his thoughts falls instantly abroad, by drawing out this one pin, his breath. Tis good with all our earthly designs, to mingle the serious thoughts of the Dominion of Providence, and our own frailty, James 4.15 If the Lord will, and we live.
We lay the Plot and Design of our future earthly felicity in our own thoughts, we mould and contrive a design for a long and pleasant life. The model for raising an Estate is already formed in our thoughts, and we have not patience to defer our pleasure till the accomplishment of it, but presently draw a train of pleasing Consequents from this Chimaera, and our thoughts can stoop to nothing less than sitting down all the remainder of our days, in the very lap of delight and pleasure: Forgetting that our breath is all the while in our Nostrils, and may expire the next moment; and if it do, the structure of all our Expectations and Projects come to nothing in the same moment: His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his dust; and in that very day his thoughts perish.