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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 VII.
Look beyond this embodied state, and learn to live now as you hope to live shortly: Begin to be, what you expect to be. You know the time is at hand that you shall live above all bodily concernments and employments, the Soul shall be a drudge to the Body no more. You shall be as the Angels, Matth. 22.30. not marrying nor given in Marriage, which is Synecdochically put for all Carnal Employments, and Enjoyments; eat no more, drink no more, sleep no more; buy and sell no more. Now suit your selves as much as your State, and the Duties of Religion will suffer you, to that State beforehand. The sum of what I aim at is in 1 Cor. 7.29, 30. Be in all your Relations, as if you had none. Look on ⟨p. 184⟩those things as if already they were not, which shortly must be none of yours, and both acquaint and accustom your thoughts to the life of separation from the Body, which you must shortly live, which brings me home to the next point, viz. The Condition of Humane Souls in the State of Separation.
LOok beyond this embodyed state, and learn to live now as you hope to live shortly: Begin to be, what you expect to be. You know the time is at hand that you shall live above all bodily concernments and imployments, the Soul shall be a drudge to the Body no more. You shall be as the Angels, Matth. 22.30. not marrying nor given in Marriage, which is Synecdochically put for all Carnal Imployments, and Enjoyments; eat no more, drink no more, sleep no more; buy and sell no more. Now suit your selves as much as your State, and the Duties of Religion will suffer you, to that State beforehand. The summ of what I aim at is in