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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.
2. It will be a satisfying sight, Psa. 17.15. So perfectly quieting and giving rest to the Soul in all its powers that they neither can proceed nor desire to proceed any farther. The understanding can know no more, the will can will no more; the affections of joy, delight, and love are at full rest and quiet in their proper centre. For all good is in the chiefest good eminently; as all the light of the Candles in the World is in the Sun, and all the Rivers in the World in the Sea. That which makes the Understanding, Will, and Affections move farther, as being restless, and unsatisfied in all discoveries and enjoyments here, is the limited and imperfect nature of things we now converse with; as if you being a great Ship that draws much Water into a narrow and shallow River, she can neither sail, nor swim but is presently aground; but let that Ship have sea room enough, then she can turn and Sail before the wind, because there is depth of Water, and room enough: So 'tis here, all that delighted, but could never satisfy you in the Creature, is eminently in God. And what was imperfectly in them is perfectly to be enjoyed in him 1 Cor. 15.28. God shall be all in all, the comforts you had here were but drop by drop, inflaming, not satisfying the appetite of the Soul. But then the Lamb which is in the midst of the Throne shall feed them, and lead them unto fountains of living Waters, Rev. 7.17. The object fills the faculties.
2. It will be a satisfying sight, Psa. 17.15. So perfectly quieting and giving rest to the Soul in all its powers that they neither can proceed nor desire to proceed any farther. The understanding can know no more, the will can will no more; the affections of joy, delight, and love are at full rest and quiet in their proper center. For all good is in the chiefest good eminently; as all the light of the Candles in the World is in the Sun, and all the Rivers in the World in the Sea. That which makes the Understanding, Will, and Affections move farther, as being restless, and unsatisfied in all discoveries and enjoyments here, is the limited and imperfect nature of things we now converse with; as if you being a great Ship that draws much Water into a narrow and shallow River, she can neither sail, nor swim but is presently aground; but let that Ship have sea room enough, then she can turn and Sail before the wind, because there is depth of Water, and room enough: So 'tis here, all that delighted, but could never satisfie you in the Creature, is eminently in God. And what was imperfectly in them is perfectly to be enjoyed in him