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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.
1Others plead, the desire they have to live, is, in order to God's further service by them in this World. O say they, it was David's happiness to die, when he had served his Generation according to the Will of God, Acts 13.36. If we had done so too, we should say with Simeon, `Now lettest thou thy Servant depart in peace.
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1(1) God needs not your hands to carry on his service in the World: he can do it by other hands when you are gone. Many of greater Gifts and Graces than you, are daily laid in the Grave to teach you, God needs no mans help to carry on his Work.
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(2) If the service of God be so dear to you, there is higher and more excellent Service for you in Heaven, than any you ever were, or can be employed in here on earth. O why don't you long to be amidst the thick of Angels and Spirits made perfect in the Temple-Service in Heaven?
(2) If the service of God be so dear to you, there is higher and more excellent Service for you in Heaven, than any you ever were, or can be imployed in here on earth. O why don't you long to be amidst the thick of Angels and Spirits made perfect in the Temple-Service in Heaven?