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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
USE II. › Argument 1 › II. The Pleas of Faith in behalf of Death.
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II. The Pleas of Faith in behalf of Death.
Let us in the next place weigh the Pleas and Reasons, which, notwithstanding all this, do overpower and prevail with the Believing Soul to be gone, and quit its own Body, and return no more to the Elementary World.
And thus the power of Faith and Love, enable it to reply.
My dear Body, the Companion and Partner of my Comforts and Troubles in the days of my Pilgrimage on earth, great is my love, and strong are the Bonds of my affections to thee. Thou hast been tenderly, yea, excessively beloved by me: my cares and fears for thee have been unexpressible: and nothing but the love of Jesus Christ is strong enough to gain my consent to part with thee: thy interest in my affections is great, but as great as it is, and as much as I prize thee, I can shake thee off, and thrust thee aside to go to Christ.