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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. The Providence of God ordering and framing the Body of man suitably to this his Appointment;1 a frail, weak Creature, having the seeds of death in his Constitution: Thousands of Diseases and Infirmities are bred in his Nature, and the smallest pore in his Body, is a door large enough to let in death. Hence his Body is compared to a piece of cloth which Moths have fretted, Psal. 39.11. it's become a seary rotten thing, which cannot long hang together. And indeed it is a wonder it continues so long as it doth.
- 1Quotidie mo•imur, quotidie enim demitur aliqu• pars vita, & tunc quoque cum crescimus vit• decrescit, I•fantiam amisimus, deinde Adolescenti•m, usque ad besternam: quicquid transit temporis perit.
And both these viz, The divine Appointment and Providence are in pursuance of a double design, or for the payment of a twofold debt, which God owes to the first and to the second Adam.
(1.) By cutting off the life, or dissolving the Tabernacles of wicked men, God pays▪ that debt of Justice owing to the first Adam's sinful Posterity, whose sins cry daily to his Justice to cut them off, •om. 6 23. The wages of sin is death; and indeed it is admirable, that his patience suffers ungodly men to live so long as they do, for he endures with much long-suffering, om. 9.22. He sees all their sins, he is grieved at the heart with them: His forbearance doth but encourage them the more to sin against him,