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 ...
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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 ...
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Flavel, John, 1630?-1691.
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London :: Printed for Francis Tyton ...,
1685.
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Soul -- Early works to 1800.
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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A39675.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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Inference IV.
DOth God maintain your life by breath? let not that breath destroy your life, which God gave to preserve it.
No man can live without breath, and yet some might live longer than they do, if their breath were better im∣ployed. Some mens throats have been cut by their own Tongues,* 1.1 as the Arabian Proverb intimates. Life and death (saith Solomon) are in the power of the Tongue. Criticks observe, that a Word, and a Plague, grow upon the same root in the Hebrew Tongue? 'Tis certain, that some mens breath hath been baneful poison both to themselves and others: It was a word that cut off the life of Adonijah, •• King 2.23. and thousands since his day, have dyed upon the point of the same weapon. 'Tis therefore wholsome
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advice that is given us Psalm 34.12. What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days that he may see good; keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
And the more evil the times are, the stricter guard we should keep upon our lips. It is an evil time, the prudent will keep silence, Amos 5.13. When wicked men watch to make a man an offender for a word, as it is Isai. 29.20, 21. it behooves us to be upon our watch, that we offend not with our lips. 'Tis good to keep, what is not safe to trust. David was as a deaf and dumb man, when in the company of wicked men, Psal. 38.13. he thought silence then to be his prudence. It is better they should call you Fools, than find you so.