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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.
God hath formed me (as he hath other men) a prospecting Creature. I feel my self yet uncentred, and short of that state of rest and satisfaction to which my Soul in its Natural and Spiritual Capacity hath a Designation. I find that I am in a continual motion towards my everlasting ⟨image 11⟩abode, and the expense of my time, and many Infirmities tell me I am not far from it: By all which I am strongly prompted to look forward, and acquaint my self as much as I can, with my next place, state, and employment. I look with a greedy and inquisitive eye that way.
God hath formed me (as he hath other men) a prospecting Creature. I feel my self yet uncentred, and short of that state of rest and satisfaction to which my Soul in its Natural and Spiritual Capacity hath a Designation. I find that I am in a continual motion towards my everlasting ⟨image 11⟩abode, and the expence of my time, and many Infirmities tell me I am not far from it: By all which I am strongly prompted to look forward, and acquaint my self as much as I can, with my next place, state, and imployment. I look with a greedy and inquisitive eye that way.
Yet would I not be guilty of an unwarrantable Curiosity, in searching into unrevealed things; how willing soever I am to put up my head by faith into the World above, and to know the things which Jesus Christ hath purchased and prepared for me, and all the rest that are waiting for his appearance and Kingdom. I feel my Curiosity checked and repressed by that Elegant Paronomasia, Rom. 12.3. [Greek or Hebrew], In all things I would be wise unto Sobriety. I groan under the effects of Adam's itching Ambition to know, and would not by repeating his sin increase my own misery: Nor yet would I be scared by his Example into the contrary evil of neglecting the means God hath afforded me, to know all that I can know of his revealed Will.