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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.
Of all Natural Pleasures in the World, Intellectual Pleasures are found to be most agreeable and connatural to the Soul of man.
The more refined and remote from sense any pleasure is, the more grateful it is to the Soul; those are certainly the sweetest Delights that spring out of the mind. A drop of intellectual pleasure is valued by a generous and well tempered soul, above the whole Ocean of impure Joys, which come to it sophisticated and tanged through the muddy Channels of sense.
The more refined and remote from sense any pleasure is, the more grateful it is to the Soul; those are certainly the sweetest Delights that spring out of the mind. A drop of intellectual pleasure is valued by a generous and well tempered soul, above the whole Ocean of impure Joys, which come to it sophisticated and tang'd through the muddy Channels of sense.
No sensualists in the World can extract such pleasure out of Gold, Silver, Meat, and Drink; as a searching and contemplating mind finds in the discovery of truth. *Heynsius, that learned Library-keeper of Leiden, professed, that when he had shut up himself among so many illustrious Souls, he seemed to sit down there as in the very lap of Eternity, and heartily pitied the Rich and Covetous Worldlings that were strangers to his Delights.
No sensualists in the World can extract such pleasure out of Gold, Silver, Meat, and Drink; as a searching and contemplating mind finds in the discovery of truth. *Heynsius, that learned Library-keeper of Leyden, professed, that when he had shut up himself among so many illustrious Souls, he seemed to sit down there as in the very lap of Eternity, and heartily pitied the Rich and Covetous Worldlings that were strangers to his Delights.