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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 X.
TO conclude; If this frail breath be all that differences the living from the dead, Then fear not man whose breath is in his Nostrils. There is as little ground for our fear of Man, as there is for our trust in Man. As death in a moment ⟨p. 88⟩can make the best man useless, and put him out of capacity to do us any good; so it can in a moment make the worst man harmless, and put him out of a capacity to do us any injury. Indeed if the breath of our Enemies were in their power, and ours at their mercy, there would be just cause to tremble at them, but they are neither Masters of their own or ours. Who art thou that thou shouldest […] afraid of a man that shall die? saith God to Jacob, Isai. 51.12. The breath of the mightiest is no better secured, than of the meanest, nor never in more danger to be stopped, than when they breath out threatenings against the Upright.
TO conclude; If this frail breath be all that differences the living from the dead, Then fear not man whose breath is in his Nostrils. There is as little ground for our fear of Man, as there is for our trust in Man. As death in a moment ⟨p. 88⟩can make the best man useless, and put him out of capacity to do us any good; so it can in a moment make the worst man harmless, and put him out of a capacity to do us any injury. Indeed if the breath of our Enemies were in their power, and ours at their mercy, there would be just cause to tremble at them, but they are neither Masters of their own or ours. Who art thou that thou shouldest 〈…〉 afraid of a man that shall die? saith God to Iacob, Isai. 51.12. The breath of the mightiest is no better secured, than of the meanest, nor never in more danger to be stopt, than when they breath out threatnings against the Upright.