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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.
II. Others offend in the Excess and extravagancy of their love to the Body, and these are an hundred to one in number with those that sin in defect of love. My friends, upon a due search it will be found, that the love of our Souls generally degenerates into fondness and folly: There is but little well tempered and ordinate love found among men. We make fondlings, yea, we make Idols of our own Bodies, we rob God, yea our own Souls, to give to the Body. It is not a natural and kindly heat of love, but a mere feverish heat which preys upon the very Spirits of Religion, which is found with many of us. This feverish distemper may be discovered by the beating of our pulse in three or four particulars.
II. Others offend in the Excess and extravagancy of their love to the Body, and these are an hundred to one in number with those that sin in defect of love. My friends, upon a due search it will be found, that the love of our Souls generally degenerates into fondness and folly: There is but little well tempered and ordinate love found among men. We make fondlings, yea, we make Idols of our own Bodies, we rob God, yea our own Souls, to give to the Body. It is not a natural and kindly heat of love, but a meer feavourish heat which preys upon the very Spirits of Religion, which is found with many of us. This feavourish distemper may be discovered by the beating of our pulse in three or four particulars.
(1.) This appears by our sinful indulgence to our whining appetites; We give the flesh whatsoever it craves, and can deny it nothing it desires; pampering the Body, to the great injury and hazard of the Soul. Some have their conversation in the lusts of the flesh, as it is Eph. 2.3. Trading only in those things that please and pamper the flesh: They sow to the flesh, Gal. 6.8. (i.e.) all their studies and labours are but the sowing of the seeds of pleasure to the flesh. Not an handful of spiritual Seed sown in Prayer for the Soul all the day long; what the Body craves, the obsequious Soul like a slave, is at its beck to give it.