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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 Body is the Souls ancient Acquaintance, and intimate Friend, with whom it hath assiduously and familiarly conversed from its beginning. They have been partners in each others comforts and sorrows. They may say to each other, as Miconius did to his Colleague, with whom he had spent twenty years in the Government of the Thuringian Church: Cucurri••s, certavimus, laboravimus, pugnavimus, vicimus & viximus conjunctissimé; We have run, striven, laboured, fought, overcome, and lived most intimately and lovingly together Consuetude and daily conversation begets and conciliates Friendship and Love betwixt Creatures of contrary Natures: Let a Lamb be brought up with a Lyon, and the Lyon will express a tenderness towards it, much more the Soul to its own Body.
2. The Body is the Souls antient Acquaintance, and intimate Friend, with whom it hath assiduously and familiarly conversed from its beginning. They have been partners in each others comforts and sorrows. They may say to each other, as Miconius did to his Colleague, with whom he had spent twenty years in the Government of the Thuringian Church: Cucurri••s, certavimus, laboravimus, pugnavimus, vicimus & viximus conjunctissimé; We have run, striven, laboured, fought, overcome, and lived most intimately and lovingly together Consuetude and daily conversation begets and conciliates Friendship and Love betwixt Creatures of contrary Natures: Let a Lamb be brought up with a Lyon, and the Lyon will express a tenderness towards it, much more the Soul to its own Body.
3. The Body is the Souls house and beloved habitation, where it was born, and hath lived ever since it had a being, and in which it hath enjoyed all its comforts, natural and supernatural, which cannot but strengthen the Souls engagement to it. Upon this account the Apostle calls it the Souls home, 2 Cor. 5.6. Whilst we are at home in the Body: 'Tis true, this house is not so comfortable an habitation, that it should be much desired by many Souls: we may say of many gracious Souls, that they pay a dear rent for the house they dwell in; or as it was said of Galba, Anima Galbae male habitat, their Souls are but ill accommodated, but yet it is their home, and therefore beloved by them.