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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.
By all which you see the clearest proof of the Souls Immortality, and how the contrary supposition overthrows our Faith, Duties, and Comforts. Yet all this notwithstanding, how apt are we to suspect this Doctrine, and remain still dis-satisfied and doubting about it, when all is said? which comes to pass partly from (1) the subtlety of Satan, who knows he can never persuade men to live the life of Beasts, till he first persuade them to think they shall dye as the Beasts do, (and partly from the influence of Sense and Reason upon us, whereby we do too much suffer our selves to be swayed, and imposed upon in matters of greatest moment in Religion. For these being proper Arbiters and Judges in other matters within their Sphere, they are arrogant, and we easy enough to admit them, to be Arbiters also in things that are quite above them; hence come such plausible objections as these.
By all which you see the clearest proof of the Souls Immortality, and how the contrary supposition overthrows our Faith, Duties, and Comforts. Yet all this notwithstanding, how apt are we to suspect this Doctrine, and remain still dis-satisfyed and doubting about it, when all is said? which comes to pass partly from (1) the subtilty of Satan, who knows he can never perswade men to live the life of Beasts, till he first perswade them to think they shall dye as the Beasts do, (and partly from the influence of Sense and Reason upon us, whereby we do too much suffer our selves to be swayed, and imposed upon in matters of greatest moment in Religion. For these being proper Arbiters and Judges in other matters within their Sphere, they are arrogant, and we easy enough to admit them, to be Arbiters also in things that are quite above them; hence come such plausible objections as these.