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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.
Inference I.
IS it so? Learn hence the mighty strength and prevalence of Divine Love, which over-powering all natural Affections, doth not only enable the Souls of men to take their Separation from the Body patiently, but to long for it ardently, Philip. 1.23 While some need Patience to dye, others need it as much to live, 2 Thes. 3.5. 'Tis said Revel. 12.11. They loved not their lives. And indeed on these terms they first closed with Christ, Luke 12.26. To hate their lives for his sake (je) to love them in so remiss a degree, that when ever they shall come in competition with Christ, to regard them no more than the things we hate.
IS it so? Learn hence the mighty strength and prevalence of Divine Love, which over-powering all natural Affections, doth not only enable the Souls of men to take their Separation from the Body patiently, but to long for it ardently, Philip. 1.23 While some need Patience to dye, others need it as much to live, 2 Thes. 3.5. 'Tis said Revel. 12.11. They loved not their lives. And indeed on these terms they first closed with Christ, Luke 12.26. To hate their lives for his sake (ie) to love them in so remiss a degree, that when ever they shall come in competition with Christ, to regard them no more than the things we hate.