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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
MATTH. 16.26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole… › Doctrine 1: DOCT. I.
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.
It can in a moment mount it self from Earth to Heaven, view the face thereof, describe the motions of the Sun in the Ecliptic, calculate Tables for the motions of the Planets and fixed Stars, invent convenient Cycles for the computations of Time, foretell at a great distance the dismal Eclipses of the Sun and Moon, to the very Dig••, and the portentous Conjunctions of the Planets, to the very minute of their Ingress: these are the pleasant employments of the Understanding.
It can in a moment mount it self from Earth to Heaven, view the face thereof, describe the motions of the Sun in the Ecliptick, calculate Tables for the motions of the Planets and fixed Stars, invent convenient Cycles for the computations of Time, foretel at a great distance the dismal Eclipses of the Sun and Moon, to the very Dig••, and the •ortentous Conjunctions of the Planets, to the very minute of their Ingress: these are the pleasant imployments of the Understanding.
But there is an higher game at which this Eagle plays, it reckons it self all thi••• ••ile employed as much beneath its capacity, as Domitian in catching flies: though these be lawful and pleasant exercises, when it hath leisure for them, yet it is fitted for a much nobler exercise, even to penetrate the glorious Mysteries of Redemption, to trace redeeming love through all the astonishing methods, and manifold discoveries of it, and yet higher than all this, it is capable of an immediate sight or facial vision of the blessed God, short of which it receives no pleasure that is fully agreeable to its noble powers and infinite appetite.
But there is an higher game at which this Eagle plays, it reckons it self all thi••• ••ile imploy'd as much beneath its capacity, as Domitian in catching flies: though these be lawful and pleasant exercises, when it hath leisure for them, yet it is fitted for a much nobler exercise, even to penetrate the glorious Mysteries of Redemption, to trace redeeming love through all the astonishing methods, and manifold discoveries of it, and yet higher than all this, it is capable of an immediate sight or facial vision of the blessed God, short of which it receives no pleasure that is fully agreeable to its noble powers and infinite appetite.