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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.
Two things will deserve our Consideration in the Doctrinal part of this point.
I. Wherein the Soul evidenceth its love to the Body. II. What are the Grounds and Fundamental Causes or Reasons of its love to it; and then apply it.
I. Wherein the Soul evidenceth its love to the Body, and that it doth in divers respects:
1. In its Cares for the things needful to the Body, as the Text speaks, in Nourishing and Cherishing it, (i.e.) taking care for Food and Raiment for it. This Care is Universal, it's implanted in the most Salvage and Barbarous People: and is generally so excessive and exorbitant, that though it never needs a Spur, yet most times, and with most Men it doth need a Curb; and therefore Christ in Matth. 6.32. shows how those Cares torture and distract the Nations of the World, warns them against the like Excesses, and propounds a Rule to them for the allay and mitigation of them, v. 25, 26, 27. So doth the Apostle also,