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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 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, Exod. 33.18, 19, 20. q. d. Moses, Thou askest a great thing, and understandest not how unable thou ⟨p. 320⟩art to support that which thou desirest: should I show thee my Glory in this compounded state thou now art, it would confound thee, and swallow thee up. Nature, as now constituted, cannot support such a weight of Glory: a Ray, a glimpse of this light overpowers Man, and breaks such a clay Vessel to pieces: which is the reason why the Resurrection must intervene betwixt this state, and that of the Bodies glorification.
That the fulness 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, Exod. 33.18, 19, 20. q. d. Moses, Thou askest a great thing, and understandest not how unable thou ⟨p. 320⟩art to support that which thou desirest: should I shew thee my Glory in this compounded state thou now art, it would confound thee, and swallow thee up. Nature, as now constituted, cannot support such a weight of Glory: a Ray, a glimpse of this light overpowers Man, and breaks such a clay Vessel to pieces: which is the reason why the Resurrection must intervene betwixt this state, and that of the Bodies glorification.
And it is not to be doubted, but one main end and reason why these foretasts of Heaven are given us in the Body, is to embolden the Soul to venture through death it self for the full enjoyment of those Delights and Pleasures. They are like the Grapes of Eshcol to the faint-hearted Israelites; or the sweet Wines of Italy to the Gauls, which once tasted made them restless till they had conquered that good Country where they grew,