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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.
Inference IV.
Must we shortly put off these our Tabernacles? Then slack your pace, and cool your selves; be not too eager in the prosecution of earthly Designs. O what Bustling is here for the World, and for provisions for futurity, when as far less would serve the turn: We need not victual a Ship to cross the Chanel to France, as if she were bound to the Indies. Most mens Provisions, at least their cares and thoughts are far beyond the preparations of their Abode in this World. The folly of this, Christ discovers in that Parable, Luke 12.19. and on this very account gives him the Title of a Fool, who provided for years, many years, when, poor soul! he had not one night to enjoy those Provisions.
MUst we shortly put off these our Tabernacles? Then slack your pace, and cool your selves; be not too eager in the prosecution of earthly Designs. O what Bustling is here for the World, and for provisions for futurity, when as far less would serve the turn: We need not victual a Ship to cross the Chanel to France, as if she were bound to the Indies. Most mens Provisions, at least their cares and thoughts are far beyond the preparations of their Abode in this World. The folly of this, Christ discovers in that Parable, Luke 12.19. and on this very account gives him the Title of a Fool, who provided for years, many years, when, poor soul! he had not one night to enjoy those Provisions.