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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.) 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. Tit. 3. 3. Serving diverse lusts and pleasures, attending to every knock and call, to fulfil the desires of the flesh: O how little do these men understand the life of Religion, or the great design of Christianity! which consists in mortifying, and not pampering and gratifying the Body, Rom. 14. 13, 14. And according to that rule all serious Christians order their Bodies, giving them what is needful to keep them serviceable and useful to the Soul, but not gratifying their irregular desires: giving what their wants, not what their wantonness calls for. So Paul, 1 Cor. 9.27. I beat it down, and keep it under; he understood it as his Servant, not his Master. He knew that Hagar would quickly peark up, and domineer over Sarah, expect more attendance than ⟨p. 157⟩the Soul, except it were kept under: These two verbs, [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew] are very emphatical; the former signifies to make it black and blue with buffeting, the other, to bring it under by checks and rebukes, as Masters that understand their place and Authority use to do with insolent and wanton Servants.
(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