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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.
USE III. Of Exhortation.
TO conclude, seeing there is so strict a friendship and tender affection betwixt Soul and Body, let me persuade every Soul of you to express your love to the Body, by labouring to get union with Jesus Christ, and thereby to prevent the utter ruin of both to all Eternity.
TO conclude, seeing there is so strict a friendship and tender affection betwixt Soul and Body, let me perswade every Soul of you to express your love to the Body, by labouring to get union with Jesus Christ, and thereby to prevent the utter ruine of both to all Eternity.
Souls, if you love your selves, or the Bodies you dwell in, show it by your preventing care in season, lest they be cast away for ever. How can you say you love them, when you daily expose them to the everlasting wrath of God, by employing them as weapons of unrighteousness, to fight against him that formed them? You feed and pamper them on earth, you give them all the delights and pleasures you can procure for them in this World, but you take no care what shall become of them, nor your Souls neither after death hath separated them. O cruel Souls, cruel not to others, but to your selves, and to your own flesh, which you pretend so much love to! Is this your love to your Bodies, what, to employ them in Satan's service on Earth, and then to be cast as a prey to him for ever in Hell? You think the rigour and mortification of the Saints, their abstemiousness and self-denial, their cares, fears, and diligence, to be too great severity to their Bodies, but they know, these are the most real evidences of their true love to them; they love them too well to cast them away as you do. Alas! Your love to the Body doth not consist •n feeding and clothing and pleasing it; but in getting it united to Christ, and made the Temple of the Holy Ghost: in using it for God, and dedicating it to God.