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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.
The USES of the Point.
Our way is now open to the improvement and Use of this excellent Subject and Doctrine of Separation; and certainly it affords as rich an entertainment for our affections, as for our minds; in the following Uses: Of which the first will be for our information in six practical Inferences.
OUr way is now open to the improvement and Use of this excellent Subject and Doctrine of Separation; and certainly it affords as rich an entertainment for our affections, as for our minds; in the following Uses: Of which the first will be for our information in six practical Inferences.
Inference I.
IF this be the life and state of gracious Souls, after their separation from the Body, Then holy persons ought not to entertain dismal and terrifying thoughts of their own dissolution.
The Apprehensions and thoughts of death, should have a peculiar pleasantness in the minds of Believers: you have heard into what a blessed Presence and Communion death introduceth your Souls: how it leads you out of a Body of