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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.
And to the same sense a judicious and learned Pen expounds that place, Job 14.14. (which is commonly, but I know not how fitly, accommodated to another purpose) all the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come: which words by a diligent comparing of the Context appear to have this for their proper scope and sense.
And to the same sense a judicious and learned Pen expounds that place, Iob 14.14. (which is commonly, but I know not how fitly, accommodated to another purpose) all the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come: which words by a diligent comparing of the Context appear to have this for their proper scope and sense.
Job in the former verse had expressed his confidence by way of Petition,1 that at a set and appointed time God would remember him, so as to recall him out of the Grave; and now minded to speak out more fully, puts the Question to himself, If a man die, shall he live again? And thus answers it, all the days of my appointed time (that is, of the appointed time which he mentioned before, when God should revive him out of the dust) will I wait till my change come: that is, that glorious change, when the corruption of a loathsome Grave, should be exchanged for immortal glory: which he amplifies, and utters more expressly, Ver. 15. Thou shalt call, and I will answer; thou shalt have a desire to the work of thy hands, thou wilt not always forget to restore and perfect thine own Creature. And surely this waiting is not the act of his inanimate sleeping dust, but of that part which should be capable of such an action: q. d. I, in that part which shall be still alive, shall patiently wait the appointed time of reviving me in that part also which Death and the Grave shall insult over in a temporary triumph in the mean time.
Iob in the former verse had expressed his confidence by way of Petition,