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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 natural abilities of the mind which can in a minutes time dispatch a nimble messenger to Heaven, and mount its thoughts from this to that World in a trice. The power of cogitation is a rich endowment of the Soul, such as no other creature on earth is participant of. Though spiritual thoughts be not the natural growth of the Soul, yet thoughts capable of being spiritualized are. And without this ability of projecting thoughts, all intercourse must have been cut off.
2. The gracious principles implanted in the Soul do actually incline the mind, and mount its thoughts heavenward. Yea, this will prove more than a possibility of a conversation in Heaven; whilst Saints tabernacle on earth in Bodies of flesh, it will almost prove an impossibility that it should be otherwise. For these spiritual principles setting the bent and tendency of the heart heaven-ward, we must act against the very law of our new Nature when we place our affections elsewhere.
Secondly, A mind in heaven is most congruous, decorous, and comely for those that are the enrolled inhabitants of that heavenly City. Where should a Christians love be, but where his Lord is? Our hearts and our homes do not use to be long asunder. It becomes you so to think and so to speak now, as those who make account to be shortly singing Allelujahs before the throne.