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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.
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, 1 Cor. 7.29, 30, 31. To speak as the matter is▪ most Souls are over-heated with their Cares and eager pursuit after the concerns of the Body. They pant after the Dust of the Earth. They pierce themselves through with many Sorrows, 1 Tim. 6.10. They are cumbered like Martha, with much Serving. 'Tis a perfect Drudge and Slave to ⟨p. 137⟩the Body, bestowing all its time, strength and studies about the Body; for one Soul that puts the Question to it self, What shall I do to be saved? a Thousand are to be found, that mind nothing more, but, What shall I e•t, what shall I drink; and wherewith shall I and mine be clothed? I do not say, that these are proofs of the Souls regular Love to the Body; no, they differ from it, as a Fever from Natural Heat. This is a doting Fondness upon the Body. He truly loves his Body, that moderately and ordinately cares for what is necessary for it, and can keep it under,