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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.
1. The darkness and ignorance of our understanding. How crude, weak, and indigested are our highest and purest notions of spiritual things! We speak of them but as children, 1 Cor. 13.11. For alas, the veil is yet upon our faces. The Body of sin, and the Body of flesh cast a very dark shadow upon the world to come: But the apprehensions of separated Souls are most bright and clear. This darkness begets mistakes, mistakes beget so many quarrels and janglings that our fellowship on earth loseth at once both its profit and pleasure.
1. The darkness and ignorance of our understanding. How crude, weak, and indigested are our highest and purest notions of spiritual things! We speak of them but as children, 1 Cor. 13.11. For alas, the vail is yet upon our faces. The Body of sin, and the Body of flesh cast a very dark shadow upon the world to come: But the apprehensions of separated Souls are most bright and clear. This darkness begets mistakes, mistakes beget so many quarrels and janglings that our fellowship on earth loseth at once both its profit and pleasure.
2. There is much dullness and deadness accompanying the Communion of Saints on earth, abundance of precious time is wasted among us in unprofitable silence, and when we engage in discourses of Heaven, that discourse is often little better than silence. Our words freeze betwixt our lips, and we speak not with that concernedness and warmth of Spirit which suits with such subjects.
2. There is much dulness and deadness accompanying the Communion of Saints on earth, abundance of precious time is wasted among us in unprofitable silence, and when we engage in discourses of Heaven, that discourse is often little better than silence. Our words freeze betwixt our lips, and we speak not with that concernedness and warmth of Spirit which suits with such subjects.