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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.
(3.) It appears by our cowardly shrinking from dangers that threaten them, when the glory of God, our own and others Salvation,1 bid us expose and not regard them. Some there are, that rather than they will adventure their flesh to the rage of man, will hazard their Souls to the wrath of God. They are too tender to suffer pain or restraint for Christ, but consider not w••t sufferings are prepared for the fearful and unbelieving in the World to come, Rev. 21.8. How many sad examples do the Church-Histories of ancient and latter times afford us, of men who consulting with flesh and blood in time of danger, have in pity to the Body ruined their Souls?
(3.) It appears by our cowardly shrinking from dangers that threaten them, when the glory of God, our own and others Salvation,1 bid us expose and not regard them. Some there are, that rather than they will adventure their flesh to the rage of man, will hazard their Souls to the wrath of God. They are too tender to suffer pain or restraint for Christ, but consider not w••t sufferings are prepared for the fearful and unbelieving in the World to come, Rev. 21.8. How many sad examples do the Church-Histories of ancient and latter times afford us, of men who consulting with flesh and bloud in time of danger, have in pity to the Body ruined their Souls?
- 1Here the Soul receives a deadly wound upon it self, toward it •ff from the Body. So did Spira.