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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.
4. From distressing Persecutions into full and perfect rest. As Death sets us free from the Power of Satan, so from the reach of all Persecutors, There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest: as it is in Job 3.17. The price of one Ahab who had sold himself to work wickedness, was a stock sufficient to purchase many years trouble to all Israel, 1. King 18.17. Wicked men are as the unquiet troubled Sea, which cannot rest, Isai. 57.20. They cannot rest from troubling the Saints, till they cease to be wicked, or to live: when God puts out the Candle of their lives, they are silent in darkness, 1 Sam. 2.9. And when God puts out the Candle of our life, we are at rest, though they rage never so much in this World. Death is the Saints quietus est; their full and final discharge from persecuting Enemies. When we are dying, we may say, as Psal. 9.6. O thou Enemy, Destructions are come to a perpetual end.
4. From distressing Persecutions into full and perfect rest. As Death sets us free from the Power of Satan, so from the reach of all Persecutors, There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest: as it is in Iob 3.17. The price of one Ahab who had sold himself to work wickedness, was a stock sufficient to purchase many years trouble to all Israel, 1. King 18.17. Wicked men are as the unquiet troubled Sea, which cannot rest, Isai. 57.20. They cannot rest from troubling the Saints, till they cease to be wicked, or to live: when God puts out the Candle of their lives, they are silent in darkness, 1 Sam. 2.9. And when God puts out the Candle of our life, we are at rest, though they rage never so much in this World. Death is the Saints quietus est; their full and final discharge from persecuting Enemies. When we are dying, we may say, as