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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. Is thy Estate decayed and blasted by Providence, so that thy life which was once full of Creature-Comforts, is now filled with Cares and Anxieties; O 'tis a weaning Providence to thee, and bespeaks thee the more cheerfully to bid the World farewell. The less comfort it gives you, the less it should entangle and engage you. We little know with what aching hearts, and pensive breasts, many of Gods people walk up and down, though for Religion, or Reputations sake they put a good face upon it: but by these things God is bespeaking and preparing them for a better State.
2. Is thy Estate decayed and blasted by Providence, so that thy life which was once full of Creature-Comforts, is now fill'd with Cares and Anxieties; O 'tis a weaning Providence to thee, and bespeaks thee the more chearfully to bid the World farewel. The less comfort it gives you, the less it should entangle and engage you. We little know with what aking hearts, and pensive breasts, many of Gods people walk up and down, though for Religion, or Reputations sake they put a good face upon it: but by these things God is bespeaking and preparing them for a better State.
3. Is an Husband, a Wife, or dear Children dead, and with them the comfort of life laid in the dust? Why this the Lord sees necessary to do, to persuade you to come after willingly? 'Tis the cutting asunder thy roots in the earth, that thou mayest fall the more easily. O how many strokes must God give, at our Names, Estates, Relations, and Health; before we will give way to the last stroke of death that fells us to the ground?
3. Is an Husband, a Wife, or dear Children dead, and with them the comfort of life laid in the dust? Why this the Lord sees necessary to do, to perswade you to come after willingly? 'Tis the cutting asunder thy roots in the earth, that thou maist fall the more easily. O how many stroaks must God give, at our Names, Estates, Relations, and Health; before we will give way to the last stroak of death that fells us to the ground?