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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.
Some may think such a vision of God to exceed the abilities of nature, and capacity of any Creature. But as a learned man rightly observes,1 if the divine Nature be capable of union with a Creature, as its evident it is in the person of Christ, it is also capable of being the object of vision to the Creature; beside, we must know the light of glory hath the same respect to this blessed vision; that assisting grace hath to ⟨p. 324⟩the acts of Faith and Obedience, performed here on Earth. It is a comforting-Soul-strengthening light, not to dazzle and over-power; but comfort, strengthen, and clear the eye of the Creatures understanding, Rev. 2.28. I will give him the morning star, Lumen confortans, and Psal. 36.9. in thy light we shall see light ▪
Some may think such a vision of God to exceed the abilities of nature, and capacity of any Creature. But as a learned man rightly observes,1 if the divine Nature be capable of union with a Creature, as its evident it is in the person of Christ, it is also capable of being the object of vision to the Creature; beside, we must know the light of glory hath the same respect to this blessed vision; that assisting grace hath to ⟨p. 324⟩the acts of Faith and Obedience, performed here on Earth. It is a comforting-Soul-strengthening light, not to dazle and over-power; but comfort, strengthen, and clear the eye of the Creatures understanding, Rev. 2.28. I will give him the morning star, Lumen confortans, and Psal. 36.9. in thy light we shall see light ▪