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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 III.
DO the Souls of Men overlive their Bodies? Then 'tis the height of madness and spiritual Infatuation, to destroy the Soul for the Bodies sake. To cast away an Immortal Soul for the gratification of perishing flesh: to ruin the precious Soul for ever, for the pleasures of sin, which are but for a moment, yet this is the madness of millions of Men. They will drown their own Souls, in everlasting perdition, to procure unnecessary things for the Body, 1 Tim. 6.9. They that will be rich, &c. Every cheat and circumvention in dealing, every lye, every act of oppression, is a wound given the Immortal Soul for the procuring some accommodations to the Body.
DO the Souls of Men overlive their Bodies? Then 'tis the height of madness and spiritual Infatuation, to destroy the Soul for the Bodies sake. To cast away an Immortal Soul for the gratification of perishing flesh: to ruine the precious Soul for ever, for the pleasures of sin, which are but for a moment, yet this is the madness of millions of Men. They will drown their own Souls, in everlasting perdition, to procure unnecessary things for the Body, 1 Tim. 6.9. They that will be rich, &c. Every cheat and circumvention in dealing, every lye, every act of oppression, is a wound given the Immortal Soul for the procuring some accommodations to the Body.
O what Soul-undoing bargains do some make with the Devil! Some sell their Souls outright for the gratification of their lusts,