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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 V.
IF we must shortly put off these Tabernacles, Then the groaning and mourning time of Believers is but short. How heavy soever their burden be, yet they shall carry it but a little way. It's said 2 Cor. 5 4. We that are in this Tabernacle do groan, being burdened. Good Souls in this State are every where groaning under heavy pressures. Their burdens are of two sorts, Sympathetical, whereby they grieve with, and on the account of others, and so every true member of the Church of God ought to sympathize, both with God, Psal. 1 39.21. Am not I grieved with them that rise up against thee? Psal. 42.10. it is as with a Sword in their bones; and with the people of God, Zeph 3.18. sorrowful for the solemn Assembly, so 2 Cor. 11.29. Who is offended and I burn not? And indeed, it is an Argument of rich, as well as true grace, that we can, and do heartily mourn with, and for the Interest and People of God, though our own lot in the World, as Nehemiah's, be never so comfortable. Or else our burdens are Idiopathetical (i. e.) such as we bear upon our own proper account and score: And where is the Christian that hath not his own burden, yea, many burdens on him at once? Some groan under the burden of sin, Rom. 7.24. Scarce one day are the tears off some eye-lids on this account. And who groans not under the burden of affliction, either inward upon the Soul, Prov. 18.14. Job 6.1, 2, 3. or outward upon the Body, State, Relations, &c. These things make the people of God a burden to themselves,