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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.
IN the next place let me press you to regulate your love to your Bodies, by the rules of Religion and right Reason: I must press you to love them, though Nature it self teacheth you so to do; but I press you to love them as Christians, as men that understand the right use and improvement of their Bodies. There are two sorts of errors in our love to the Body, one in Defect, the other in Excess: both come fitly here to be censured and healed.
IN the next place let me press you to regulate your love to your Bodies, by the rules of Religion and right Reason: I must press you to love them, though Nature it self teacheth you so to do; but I press you to love them as Christians, as men that understand the right use and improvement of their Bodies. There are two sorts of errours in our love to the Body, one in Defect, the other in Excess: both come fitly here to be censured and healed.
I. Some there be that offend in the Defect of love to their own Bodies, who use them as if they had no love for them, whose Souls act as if they were enemies to their own Bodies. They do not formally and directly hate them, but consequentially and eventually they may be said to hate them, and that
(1) By defiling them with filthy lusts, so the Apostle speaks, 1 Cor. 6.18. Every sin that a man doth, is without the Body, but he that committeth Adultery sinneth against his own Body: in other sins, 'tis the Instrument, but here 'tis both Instrument and Object; not only God, but your own Bodies are abused, and wronged by it. The Body may be considered two ways, either 1. As our Vessels, or, 2. As the Spirits Temple.