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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 II.
Then the Apostasy of unregenerate Professors in times of eminent danger, is not to be wondered at. They will and must warp from Christ, when their lives are in hazard for him. The love of the Body will certainly prevail over their love to Christ and Religion. Amor meus pondus meum. Self-love will now draw. Love is the weight of the Soul, which inclines and determines it, in the competition of Interests, and the predominant Interest always carries it. Every Unregenerate Professor loves his own life more than Christ, prefers his body before his Soul; such a one may ⟨p. 146⟩upon divers accounts, as Education, Example, slight Convictions of Conscience, or Ostentation of gifts, fall into a Profession of Religion, and continue a long time in that Profession, before he visibly recede from Christ; hope of the Resurrection of the Interest of Religion in the World; Shame of retracting his Profession; Applause of his Zeal and Constancy in higher Trials; The Peace of his own Conscience, and many such Motives may prevail with a Carnal Professor to endure a while; but when dangers of life come to an height, they are gone, Matth. 24.8, 9, 10. And therefore our Lord tells us, that they who hate not their lives, cannot be his Disciples, Luke 12.26. Now will they lose their lives by saving them, Matt. 16.25. And the Reasons are plain and forcible. For,
THen the Apostasie of unregenerate Professours in times of eminent danger, is not to be wondered at. They will and must warp from Christ, when their lives are in hazard for him. The love of the Body will certainly prevail over their love to Christ and Religion. Amor meus pondus meum. Self-love will now draw. Love is the weight of the Soul, which inclines and determines it, in the competition of Interests, and the predominant Interest always carries it. Every Unregenerate Professor loves his own life more than Christ, prefers his body before his Soul; such a one may