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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.
1. That it will not be such a sight of God as we now have by the mediation of faith, but a direct immediate and intuitive vision of God, 1 Joh. 3.2.1 We shall see him as he is, 1 Cor. 13.12. Then face to face, Which far transcends the vision of faith, in clearness and in comport; this seems to import no less than the very sight of the divine Essence. That which which Moses desired on Earth to see, but could not, Exod. 33.20. nor can be seen by any man dwelling in a Body, 1 Tim. 6.16. nor by unbodied Souls comprehensively, so God only sees himself: our eyes see the Sun which they cannot comprehend, yet truly apprehend. God will then be known in his Essence, and in the glory of all his Attributes: this sight of the Attributes of God, gives the occasion and matter of those ascriptions of Praise and Glory to him, which is the proper employment of glorified Souls, Rev. 4.11. and Rev. 5 12, 13. Which is the proper employment of Angels, Isai. 6.3. O how different is this from what we now have through Faith, Duties, and Ordinances? See the difference betwixt knowledge by reports, and immediate sight in that example of the Queen of the South, 1 Kings 10.5. The former only excited her desires, that latter transported and rapt her very S•ul.
1. That it will not be such a sight of God as we now have by the mediation of faith, but a direct immediate and intuitive vision of God, 1 Joh. 3.2.