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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 is the expectation and hope of this, which comforteth the Souls of the Righteous here, Psal. 17.15. When I awake, ⟨p. 323⟩I shall behold thy face in righteousness. Those weak and dim representations made by faith at a distance, are the very joy and rejoicing of a Believers Soul now, 1 Pet. 1.7, 8. but how sweet and transporting soever these Visions of Faith be, they are not worthy to be named in comparison with the immediate and beatifical Vision, 1 Cor. 13.12. This is the very sum of a Believers blessedness: and what it is we cannot comprehend in this imperfect state; only in general, we may gather these Conclusions about it, from the account given of it in the Scriptures.
It is the expectation and hope of this, which comforteth the Souls of the Righteous here, Psal. 17.15. When I awake, ⟨p. 323⟩I shall behold thy face in righteousness. Those weak and dim representations made by faith at a distance, are the very joy and rejoycing of a Believers Soul now, 1 Pet. 1.7, 8. but how sweet and transporting soever these Visions of Faith be, they are not worthy to be named in comparison with the immediate and beatifical Vision, 1 Cor. 13.12. This is the very summ of a Believers blessedness: and what it is we cannot comprehend in this imperfect state; only in general, we may gather these Conclusions about it, from the account given of it in the Scriptures.