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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.
2. The Soul discovers its Esteem and Value for the Body in all the Fears it hath about it. Did not the Soul love it exceedingly, it would never be affrighted for it, and on its account, so much and so often as it is. What a panic fear do the dangers of the Body cast the Soul into, Isa. 7.2. When the Body is in Danger, the Soul is in Distraction, the Soul is in Fears and Tremblings about it. These Fears flow from the Souls tender Love and Affection to the Body; if it did not Love it so intensely, it would never afflict and torment it self at that rate it doth about it: Satan the professed Enemy of our Souls, being throughly acquainted with those Fears which flow from the Fountain of Love to the Body, politicly improves them in the way of temptation, to the utter ruin of some, and the great hazard of other Souls: he edges and sharpens his temptations upon us this way; he puts our Bodies into danger, that he may thereby endanger our Souls; he reckons, ⟨p. 138⟩if he can but draw the Body into danger, fear will quickly drive the Soul into Temptation: It is not so much from Satan's Malice or Hatred of our Bodies, that he stirs up Persecutions against us; but he knows the tie of Affection is so strong betwixt these friends, that Love will draw, and Fear will drive the Soul into many and great Hazards of its own Happiness, to free the Body out of those Dangers. Prov. 29.25. The Fear of Man brings a Snare: and Heb. 11.37. tortured and tempted.
2. The Soul discovers its Esteem and Value for the Body in all the Fears it hath about it. Did not the Soul love it exceedingly, it would never be affrighted for it, and on its account, so much and so often as it is. What a panick fear do the dangers of the Body cast the Soul into, Isa. 7.2. When the Body is in Danger, the Soul is in Distraction, the Soul is in Fears and Tremblings about it. These Fears flow from the Souls tender Love and Affection to the Body; if it did not Love it so intensely, it would never afflict and torment it self at that rate it doth about it: Satan the professed Enemy of our Souls, being throughly acquainted with those Fears which flow from the Fountain of Love to the Body, politickly improves them in the way of temptation, to the utter ruine of some, and the great hazard of other Souls: he edges and sharpens his temptations upon us this way; he puts our Bodies into danger, that he may thereby endanger our Souls; he reckons,