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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.
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The true and plain sense of the Objection is this, whether Heaven and Christ be as much gain to him that enjoys it, though he be behind others both in grace, and obedience; as it is to them who are more eminent in grace, and have done and suffered more for its sake? and let it be determined by your selves: but if your meaning be, that Paul was ready for death, and so are not you: his work and course was almost comfortably finished, and so is not yours: his death therefore must needs be gain to him, but it may be loss to you; even the loss of all that you are worth for ever.
To this I say, the Wisdom of God orders the time of his peoples death, as well as all other Circumstances about it: and in this, your hearts may be at perfect rest, That being in Christ you can never die to your loss, die when you will. I know you will reply, that if your Union with Christ were clear, the Controversy were ended: but then you must also consider, they are as safe who die by an act of recumbency upon Christ, as those that die in the fullest assurance of their interest in him.
To this I say, the Wisdom of God orders the time of his peoples death, as well as all other Circumstances about it: and in this, your hearts may be at perfect rest, That being in Christ you can never die to your loss, die when you will. I know you will reply, that if your Union with Christ were clear, the Controversie were ended: but then you must also consider, they are as safe who die by an act of recumbency upon Christ, as those that die in the fullest assurance of their interest in him.