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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.) It appears by our sparing and favouring of them, in the necessary uses and services we have for them in Religion. Many will rather starve their Souls, than work and exercise their Bodies, or disturb their sluggish rest: thus the idle excuses and pretences of endangering our health, oftentimes put by the duties of Religion, or at least lose the fittest and properest season for them: We are lazying upon our beds, when we should be wrestling upon our knees: The World is suffered to get the start of Religion in the morning, and so Religion is never able to overtake it all the day long. This was none of David's course, he prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried, Psal. 119.147. and Psal. 5.3. My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord, in the morning will ⟨p. 158⟩I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up. And indeed we should consecrate unto God the freshest and fittest parts of our time, when our bodily Senses are most vigorous; and we would do so (except God by his providence disable us) were our hearts fully set for God, and Religion lay with weight upon our Spirits.
(2.) It appears by our sparing and favouring of them, in the necessary uses and services we have for them in Religion. Many will rather starve their Souls, than work and exercise their Bodies, or disturb their sluggish rest: thus the idle excuses and pretences of endangering our health, oftentimes put by the duties of Religion, or at least lose the fittest and properest season for them: We are lazying upon our beds, when we should be wrestling upon our knees: The World is suffered to get the start of Religion in the morning, and so Religion is never able to overtake it all the day long. This was none of David's course, he prevented the dawning of the morning, and cryed, Psal. 119.147. and Psal. 5.3. My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord, in the morning will ⟨p. 158⟩I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up. And indeed we should consecrate unto God the freshest and fittest parts of our time, when our bodily Senses are most vigorous; and we would do so (except God by his providence disable us) were our hearts fully set for God, and Religion lay with weight upon our Spirits.