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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.
And as their fears are great about the inward man, so also about the outward man; especially when such bloody preparations seem to be making by the same Enemies that have acted such, and so many bloody Tragedies already in the World.
But at death they enter into perfect peace and security, Isai 57.2. No wind of fear shall ever ruffle and disturb their Souls, and put them into a storm any more.
7. From deluding shadows into substantial good. This World is the World of Shadows, and delusive appearances. Here we are imposed upon and baffled by empty and deceitful Vanities. All we have here, is little else but a Dream: at death the Soul awakes out of its Dream, and finds it self in the World of Realities, where it feeds upon substantial good to satisfaction, Psal. 17.15.
Now the advantages accruing to the Soul by death, being so great, and many; though the Medium be harsh and ungrateful in it self, yet there is all the reason in the World, we should covet it for the benefits that come by it.