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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.
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Ephesians V. 29. For no Man ever yet hated his own Flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the Church.
Having given some account of the Nature and Immortality of the Soul, we next come to discourse its Love and Inclination to the Body, with which it is united, from this Text. The scope of the Apostle is, to press Christians to the exact Discharge of those Relative Duties they owe to each other; particularly, he here urgeth the mutual Duties of Husbands and Wives, v. 22. Wives, to an Obedient Subjection; Husbands, to a tender Love of their Wives. This Exhortation he enforceth from the intimate Union which by the Ordinance of God is betwixt them, they being now one Flesh, and this Union he illustrates by comparing it with 1. The Mystical Union of Christ and the Church. 2. The Natural Union of the Soul and Body.
HAving given some account of the Nature and Immortality of the Soul, we next come to discourse its Love and Inclination to the Body, with which it is united, from this Text. The scope of the Apostle is, to press Christians to the exact Discharge of those Relative Duties they owe to each other; particularly, he here urgeth the mutual Duties of Husbands and Wives, v. 22. Wives, to an Obedient Subjection; Husbands, to a tender Love of their Wives. This Exhortation he enforceth from the intimate Union which by the Ordinance of God is betwixt them, they being now one Flesh, and this Union he illustrates by comparing it with 1. The Mystical Union of Christ and the Church. 2. The Natural Union of the Soul and Body.