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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.
Argument II.
TO be weary of the Body upon the pure account and reason of our hatred of sin, and longing desires after Jesus Christ, argues strongly grace in truth, and grace in strength: it is both the Test of our sincerity, and the measure of our attainment, and maturity of grace; and upon both accounts highly covetable by all the people of God.
It is so great an evidence of the truth of grace, that the Scriptures have made it the descriptive periphrasis of a Christian: so we find it in 2 Tim. 4.8. the Crown of life is there promised to all them that love the appearance of Christ: (i.e.) those that love to think of it, that delight to steep their thoughts in Subjects belonging to the other World: and cast ••ny a yearning look that way, and 2 Pet. 3.12. they are described to be such as are looking for, and hastening to the coming of the day of God. Their earnest expectations and longings do not only put them upon making all the hast they can to be with Christ; but it makes the interposing time seem so tedious and slow, that with their most vehement wishes and desires, they do what they can to accelerate and hasten it, as Rev. 22. Come Lord Jesus, come quickly, Lovers hours, saith the Proverb, are full of Eternity O said, Mr. Rutherford; That Christ would make long strides O that he would fold up the Heavens as an old Cloak, and shovel time and days out of the way! Such desires as these can spring from none but