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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.
2. From heart-sinking Sorrows, into fullness of Joy. The life we now live is a groaning life, 2 Cor. 5.2. where is the Christian that if his inside could be seen, and his heart laid naked; would not be found wounded from many hands? From the hand of God, of Enemies, of Friends, of Satan: but especially by the hands of its own Corruptions. Christ our Head was styled a man of sorrows, from the multitude of his Sorrows; and it is the lot of all his to be in a state of sorrow in the Body. In the World (saith he) you shall have trouble. When I consider how often the Candle of Sorrow is held to the thread of life; I justly wonder how it is protracted to such a length. What Friend, what Enjoyment had we ever in this World, from which no sorrow, nay, many Sorrows have not sprung up to us? And if the best Comforts bring forth Sorrows, What do the worst things we meet with here, bring forth? I suppose, there are many thousands of God's People this day in the World, that have as much reason to assume the same new Name that Naomi did, and say, call me Marah. Look as Day and Night divide all time betwixt them; so do our Comforts and our Sorrows; only with this difference, That our Nights of Sorrow like Winter Nights, are long, cold, and dark; and our days of Comfort short, and frequently over-cast.
2. From heart-sinking Sorrows, into fulness of Joy. The life we now live is a groaning life, 2 Cor. 5.2. where is the Christian that if his inside could be seen, and his heart laid naked; would not be found wounded from many hands? From the hand of God, of Enemies, of Friends, of Satan: but especially by the hands of its own Corruptions. Christ our Head was stiled a man of sorrows, from the multitude of his Sorrows; and it is the lot of all his to be in a state of sorrow in the Body. In the World (saith he) you shall have trouble. When I consider how often the Candle of Sorrow is held to the thread of life; I justly wonder how it is protracted to such a length. What Friend, what Enjoyment had we ever in this World, from which no sorrow, nay, many Sorrows have not sprung up to us? And if the best Comforts bring forth Sorrows, What do the worst things we meet with here, bring forth? I suppose, there are many thousands of God's People this day in the World, that have as much reason to assume the same new Name that Naomi did, and say, call me Marah. Look as Day and Night divide all time betwixt them; so do our Comforts and our Sorrows; only with this difference, That our Nights of Sorrow like Winter Nights, are long, cold, and dark; and our days of Comfort short, and frequently over-cast.