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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 III.
IF the Souls of men be naturally so strongly inclined and affected towards the Body, then hence you may plainly see the Wisdom of God in all the Afflictions and Burdens he lays upon his people in this World, and find that all is but enough to wean off their Souls from their Bodies, and make them willing to part with them.
IF the Souls of men be naturally so strongly inclin'd and affected towards the Body, then hence you may plainly see the Wisdom of God in all the Afflictions and Burdens he lays upon his people in this World, and find that all is but enough to wean off their Souls from their Bodies, and make them willing to part with them.
The life of the Saints in this World, is generally a burdened and a groaning life, 2 Cor. 5.2. In this Tabernacle we groan, being burdened. Here the Saints feel (1) A burden of sin, Rom. 7.24. this is a dead and a sinking weight. ⟨p. 149⟩(2) A burden of Affliction, of this all are Partakers, Hebr. 12. though not all in an equal degree, or in the same kind, yet all have their burdens equal to, and even beyond their own strength to support it,