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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.
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 ⟨p. 292⟩sin, a World of sorrows, the Society of imperfect Saints; to an innumerable Company of Angels, and to the Spirits of just men made perfect. To that lovely Mount Zion, to the heavenly Sanctuary, to the blessed Visions of the face of God. O methinks there hath been enough said, to make all the Souls in whom the well-grounded hopes of the life of glory are found; to cry out with the Apostle, We are confident, I say, yea, and willing; rather to be absent from the Body, and present with the Lord, 2 Cor. 5.8.
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 ⟨p. 292⟩sin, a World of sorrows, the Society of imperfect Saints; to an innumerable Company of Angels, and to the Spirits of just men made perfect. To that lovely Mount Sion, to the heavenly Sanctuary, to the blessed Visions of the face of God. O methinks there hath been enough said, to make all the Souls in whom the well-grounded hopes of the life of glory are found; to cry out with the Apostle, We are conident, I say, yea, and willing; rather to be absent from the Body, and present with the Lord,