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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.
(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.
1. As our Vessel or Instrument for natural and Spiritual Uses and Services: and on that account we should not injure or defile it, 1 Thes. 4.4, 5. but possess it in sanctification and honour. The lusts of Uncleanness, Gluttony, and Drunkenness quench the vigour; blast the beauty, and destroy the health and honour of the Body; and so render it both naturally and morally unfit for the service and use of the Soul.
2. And the injury is yet greater, if we consider it as the Spirits Temple. On this ground the Apostle strongly convinceth, and dissuadeth Christians from these abuses of the Body, 1 Cor. 6.15, 16. He argues from the Dignity God will put upon our Bodies by the Resurrection, ver. 13, 14. They are to be transformed, and made like unto Christs glorious Body: and from the honour he hath already put upon the Bodies of the Saints, in their union with Christ, ver. 15, 16. They, as well as the Soul, are ingrafted into him, and joined with him; they are his Temples, to be dedicated, hallowed, and consecrated to his service. O let them not be made a sink for lusts, or mere strainers for meat and drink.