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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 II.
Then see the ground and reason of Satan's envy and enmity against the Soul, and his restless designs and endeavours to destroy it. It grates that Spirit of envy, to find himself, who is by nature Immortal, sunk everlastingly and irrecoverably into misery, and the Souls of Men appointed to fill up those vacant places in Heaven, from which the Angels fell. No Creature but Man is envied by Satan, and the Soul of Man much more than his Body: 'Tis true, he afflicts the Bodies of Men, when God permits him, but he ever aims at the Soul when he wounds the Body, Heb. 10. 37. This roaring Lyon is continually going about, seeking ⟨p. 122⟩whom he may devour, 1 Pet. 5.8. 'Tis the precious Soul he hunts after; that's the Morsus Diaboli, the Bit he gapes for, as the Woolf tears the Fleece to come at the Flesh. All the pleasure those miserable Creatures find, is the success of their temptations upon the Souls of Men. 'Tis a kind of delight to them to plunge. Souls into the same condemnation and misery with themselves. This is the trade they have been driving ever since their Fall. By destroying Souls, he at once exercises his revenge against God, and his envy against man, which is all the relief his miserable condition allows him.
THen see the ground and reason of Satans envy and enmity against the Soul, and his restless designs and endeavours to destroy it. It grates that Spirit of envy, to find himself, who is by nature Immortal, sunk everlastingly and irrecoverably into misery, and the Souls of Men appointed to fill up those vacant places in Heaven, from which the Angels fell. No Creature but Man is envied by Satan, and the Soul of Man much more than his Body: 'Tis true, he afflicts the Bodies of Men, when God permits him, but he ever aims at the Soul when he wounds the Body,