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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.
IT may greatly encourage and embolden the People of God to die, considering, that though at death they take the last sight, and view of all that is dear to them on earth; yet then they are admitted to the first immediate sight and blessed Vision of God, which will be their happiness to all eternity.
When Hezekiah was upon his supposed Death-bed, he complained, Isa. 38.11. I shall see Man no more with the Inhabitants of the World. We shall see thenceforth these Corporeal People no more. We shall see our Habitations and dwelling places no more, Job 7.9, 10, 11. We shall see our Children and dear Relations no more, Job 14.21. His Sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not. These things make death terrible to men; but that which cures all this trouble is, that we shall neither need, nor desire them, being thenceforth admitted to the beatifical Vision of the blessed God himself.
When Hezekiah was upon his supposed Death-bed, he complained, Isa. 38.11. I shall see Man no more with the Inhabitants of the World. We shall see thenceforth these Corporeal People no more. We shall see our Habitations and dwelling places no more, Iob 7.9, 10, 11. We shall see our Children and dear Relations no more, Iob 14.21. His Sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not. These things make death terrible to men; but that which cures all this trouble is, that we shall neither need, nor desire them, being thenceforth admitted to the beatifical Vision of the blessed God himself.