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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.
That there are Prelibations, First-fruits, and Earnests of future glory given at certain seasons to Believers in this life, is put beyond all doubting, not only by Scripture-Testimonies, but frequent experiences of God's People. I speak not only with the Scriptures, but with the clear experience of many Saints; when I say, there are to be felt and tasted, even here in the Body, the Earnests of our Inheritance, Eph. 1.14. The first-fruits of the Spirit, Rom. 8.23. The sealing of the Spirit, Eph. 1.13. The very Joy of the Lord, 1 Pet. 1.8. of the same kind, though in a remisser degree with that of the glorified.
That there are Praelibations, First-fruits, and Earnests of future glory given at certain seasons to Believers in this life, is put beyond all doubting, not only by Scripture-Testimonies, but frequent experiences of God's People. I speak not only with the Scriptures, but with the clear experience of many Saints; when I say, there are to be felt and tasted, even here in the Body, the Earnests of our Inheritance, Eph. 1.14. The first-fruits of the Spirit, Rom. 8.23. The sealing of the Spirit, Eph. 1.13. The very Ioy of the Lord, 1 Pet. 1.8. of the same kind, though in a remisser degree with that of the glorified.
That the fullness of this joy cannot be in us whilst we tabernacle in Bodies of flesh, is as plain. When Moses desired a sight of that face which the spirits of just men made perfect, do continually behold and adore, the Answer was, No Man can see my face and live,