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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.
There be but few like minded with Paul, who set a low price upon his liberty or life for Christ, Act. 20.24. or with those worthy Jews, Dan. 3.28. who yielded their Bodies to preserve their consciences. Few of Chrysostoms mind who told the Empress, Nil nisi peccatum timeo, I fear nothing but sin; Or of Basils, who told the Emperor, God threatened Hell, whereas he threatened but a prison. That is a remarkable Rule that Christ gives us Mat. 10.28. The sum of it is, to set God against man, the Soul against the Body, and Hell against temporal sufferings, and so surmounting these low fleshly considerations, to cleave to our duty in the face of dangers. You read Gal. 11 16. how in pursuit of Duty, though surrounded with danger, Paul would not confer or consult with flesh and blood, (i. e.) ask its opinion which were best, or stay for its consent till it were willing to suffer; he understood not that the flesh had any voice at the Council-table in his Soul, but willing, or unwilling, if duty call for it, he was resolved to hazard it for God.
There be but few like minded with Paul, who set a low price upon his liberty or life for Christ, Act. 20.24. or with those worthy Iews, Dan. 3.28. who yielded their Bodies to preserve their consciences. Few of Chrysostoms mind who told the Empress, Nil nisi peccatum timeo, I fear nothing but sin; Or of Basils, who told the Emperor, God threatned Hell, whereas he threatned but a prison. That is a remarkable Rule that Christ gives us Mat. 10.28. The sum of it is, to set God against man, the Soul against the Body, and Hell against temporal sufferings, and so surmounting these low fleshly considerations, to cleave to our duty in the face of dangers. You read Gal. 11 16. how in pursuit of Duty, though surrounded with danger, Paul would not conferr or consult with flesh and bloud, (i. e.) ask its opinion which were best, or stay for its consent till it were willing to suffer; he understood not that the flesh had any voice at the Council-table in his Soul, but willing, or unwilling, if duty call for it, he was resolved to hazard it for God.