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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.
Gather from hence the absolute indispensable necessity of your Union with Christ, before your dissolution by death.
GAther from hence the absolute indispensable necessity of your Vnion with Christ, before your dissolution by death.
Woe to that Soul which shall be separated from its Body, before it be united with Christ: none but the Spirits of just men are made perfect at death. Righteous Souls are the only qualified Subjects of blessedness.
Wo to that Soul which shall be separated from its Body, before it be united with Christ: none but the Spirits of just men are made perfect at death. Righteous Souls are the only qualified Subjects of blessedness.
'Tis true, every Soul hath a natural capacity of happiness, but gracious Souls only have an actual meetness for glory. The Scriptures tell us in round and plain words, that without holiness, no man shall see the Lord, Hebr. 12.14. that except we be regenerate, and born again; we cannot see the Kingdom of God, John 3.3. You make the greatest adventure that ever was made by man; indeed, an adventure infinitely too great ⟨p. 294⟩for any man to make, when you shoot the Gulf of vast eternity upon terms of hazard and uncertainty.
'Tis true, every Soul hath a natural capacity of happiness, but gracious Souls only have an actual meetness for glory. The Scriptures tell us in round and plain words, that without holiness, no man shall see the Lord,