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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 VI.
Must you shortly put off those Tabernacles, then spare them not whilst you have them, but employ them for God with all diligence. Shortly they shall be useless to you, yea, meat for Worms, now they may •e serviceable, and their Service is their honour;1 you received them not for such low ends as you employ them for. See 1 Cor. 6. 20. Glorify God in your Souls and Bodies which are his: You expect to have them glorious Bodies one day: Oh, then, let them be serviceable Bodies now. Be not fond of them to that degree many are, who choose rather to have them eaten out with rust, than worn out with service. It is your present honour to be active, and will be your singular comfort another day. What greater comfort when you come to put them off at death, than this, that you have employed them faithfully for God?
MUst you shortly put off those Tabernacles, then spare them not whilst you have them, but imploy them for God with all diligence. Shortly they shall be useless to you, yea, meat for Worms, now they may •e serviceable, and their Service is their honour;1 you received them not for such low ends as you imploy them for. See 1 Cor. 6. 20. Glorifie God in your Souls and Bodies which are his: You expect to have them glorious Bodies one day: Oh, then, let them be serviceable Bodies now. Be not fond of them to that degree many are, who chuse rather to have them eaten out with rust, than worn out with service. It is your present honour to be active, and will be your singular comfort another day. What greater comfort when you come to put them off at death, than this, that you have imployed them faithfully for God?