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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.
The scope of the context is a persuasive to patience upon a prospect of manifold tribulations coming upon the Christian Churches, strongly enforced by Christs example, who both in his own person ver. 18. and by his spirit in his Servants, ver. 19. exercised wonderful patience and long suffering as a pattern to his people.
The scope of the context is a perswasive to patience upon a prospect of manifold tribulations coming upon the Christian Churches, strongly enforced by Christs example, who both in his own person ver. 18. and by his spirit in his Servants, ver. 19. exercised wonderful patience and long suffering as a pattern to his people.
This 19. ver. gives us an account of his long-suffering towards that disobedient and immorigerous generation of sinners on whom he waited 120 years in the Ministry of Noah.
There are difficulties in the Text. Estius reckons no less than ten expositions of it,1 and saith it is a very difficult Scripture in the judgment of almost all Interpreters. But yet I must say those difficulties are rather brought to it, than found in it. It is a Text which hath been racked and tortured by Popish Expositors to make it speak Christs local descent into Hell, and to confess their Doctrine of Purgatory; things which it knew not.
There are difficulties in the Text. Estius reckons no less than ten expositions of it,1 and saith it is a very difficult Scripture in the judgment of almost all Interpreters. But yet I must say those difficulties are rather brought to it, than found in it. It is a Text which hath been rackt and tortured by Popish Expositors to make it speak Christs local descent into Hell, and to confess their Doctrine of Purgatory; things which it knew not.