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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) By macerating them with covetous lusts, denying them their due comforts and refreshments, and unmercifully burdening them with labours and sorrows about things that perish. (1) Some deny their Bodies due comforts and refreshments, which the natural and positive Laws of God both allow and command. Their Souls are cruel Step-mothers to their bodies, and keep them too short; not out of a prudent and Christian design to starve their lusts, but to advance their estates. Of this evil Solomon speaks, Eccles. 6.22. There is an evil which I have seen under the Sun, and it is common among men; A man to whom God hath given riches, Wealth, and Honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his Soul, of all that he desireth; yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease. Tenacity is a disease of the Soul, like that of a Dyscracy in the stomach, which so indisposeth it, that it cannot receive with any appetite or delight the best refreshments at a plentiful Table. (2) And others there are that wrong and ⟨p. 155⟩abuse their own bodies by laying unreasonable and unmerciful loads upon them, especially loads of grief and sorrow, wasting and weakening them beyond all rules of reason or Religion. If a friend or relation die, they have less mercy on their own Bodies, than a conscientious man hath on the Horse he rides. Cares and sorrows are as deadly to the Body as a Sword, 1 Tim 6.10. Intense and immoderate griefs about Worldly losses and crosses have slain their ten thousands: and which is strange, the Soul seems to take a certain kind of pleasure in loading and tormenting the Body. There is a real truth in that strange expression of Seneca, 1Sorrow it self hath a certain kind of pleasure attending it.
(2) By macerating them with covetous lusts, denying them their due comforts and refreshments, and unmercifully burthening them with labours and sorrows about things that perish. (1) Some deny their Bodies due comforts and refreshments, which the natural and positive Laws of God both allow and command. Their Souls are cruel Step-mothers to their bodies, and keep them too short; not out of a prudent and Christian design to starve their lusts, but to advance their estates. Of this evil Solomon speaks, Eccles. 6.22. There is an evil which I have seen under the Sun, and it is common among men; A man to whom God hath given riches, Wealth, and Honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his Soul, of all that he desireth; yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease. Tenacity is a disease of the Soul, like that of a Dyscracy in the stomach, which so indisposeth it, that it cannot receive with any appetite or delight the best refreshments at a plentiful Table. (2) And others there are that wrong and