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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 IV.
Then the exposing of the Body to danger, yea, to certain destruction, for the preservation of the Soul, is the dictate of spiritual wisdom, and that which every Christian is bound to choose and practise, when both Interests come in full opposition, Heb. 11.35. Dan. 3.28. Revel. 12.11. No promises of preferment, no threats of Torments, have been able to prevail with the people of God to give the least wound, or do the least wrong to their own Souls. When Secundus was commanded to deliver his Bible, he answered, Christianus sum, non Traditor, I am a Christian, I will not deliver it: then they desired him but to deliver aliquam ecvolam, a Chip, a Straw, any thing that came to his hand in lieu of it, he refused to redeem his life by delivering the least trifle on that account to save it.
THen the exposing of the Body to danger, yea, to certain destruction, for the preservation of the Soul, is the dictate of spiritual wisdom, and that which every Christian is bound to chuse and practise, when both Interests come in full opposition, Heb. 11.35. Dan. 3.28. Revel. 12.11. No promises of preferment, no threats of Torments, have been able to prevail with the people of God to give the least wound, or do the least wrong to their own Souls. When Secundus was commanded to deliver his Bible, he answered, Christianus sum, non Traditor, I am a Christian, I will not deliver it: then they desired him but to deliver aliquam ecvolam, a Chip, a Straw, any thing that came to his hand in lieu of it, he refused to redeem his life by delivering the least trifle on that account to save it.