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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.
One COROLLARY.
Long to be associated with the Spirits of just men made perfect. You that are going to join that blessed Assembly, will even in this respect gain an invaluable advantage. 'Tis true, there is much of comfort in the present Converses of embodied, and imperfect Saints: 'tis sweet to fast and pray, to sigh and groan together; 'tis sweeter to rejoice and praise our God together. 'Tis sweet to talk of Heaven with our faces thitherward: but alas! what is this to the ⟨p. 281⟩converses that are among the Spirits of just men made perfect! With what melting hearts have we sometimes sate under the doctrine of the Gospel. How have our ears been chained with delight to the Preacher's lips whilst he hath been discoursing of those ravishing subjects, Christ and Heaven! But alas! How dry and dull a thing is the best of this, to the language of Heaven! Three things debase and spoil the communications of the Saints on Earth, viz. the darkness, dullness, and frothiness thereof.
Long to be associated with the Spirits of just men made perfect. You that are going to joyn that blessed Assembly, will even in this respect gain an invaluable advantage. 'Tis true, there is much of comfort in the present Converses of embodied, and imperfect Saints: 'tis sweet to fast and pray, to sigh and groan together; 'tis sweeter to rejoyce and praise our God together. 'Tis sweet to talk of Heaven with our faces thitherward: but alas! what is this to the ⟨p. 281⟩converses that are among the Spirits of just men made perfect! With what melting hearts have we sometimes sate under the doctrine of the Gospel. How have our ears been chained with delight to the Preacher's lips whilst he hath been discoursing of those ravishing subjects, Christ and Heaven! But alas! How dry and dull a thing is the best of this, to the language of Heaven! Three things debase and spoil the communications of the Saints on Earth, viz. the darkness, dulness, and frothiness thereof.