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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.
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No other Soul besides mans is marriageable to Christ, or capable of Espousals to the King of Glory: they were not designed, and therefore not endued with a capacity for such an honour as this; but such a capacity hath every Soul, even the meanest on Earth, and such honour have all his Saints: others may,1 but they are betrothed to Christ in this World, and shall be presented without spot before him in the World to come.
It is now a lovely and excellent Creature in its naked natural ⟨p. 368⟩state, much more beautiful and excellent in its sanctified and gracious state; but what shall we say, or how shall we conceive of it, when all spots of sin are perfectly washed off its beautiful face in Heaven, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon it! When its filthy garments are taken away, and the pure robes of perfect Holiness, as well as Righteousness, superinduced upon this excellent Creature! If the imperfect beauty of it, begun in Sanctification, enamoured its Saviour, and made him say, Thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one of the chains of thy neck; what will its beauty and his delight in it be in the state of perfect•punc;Glorification! As we imagine the Circles in the Heavens to be vastly greater than those we view upon the Globe, so must we imagine in the case before us.
It is now a lovely and excellent Creature in its naked natural ⟨p. 368⟩state, much more beautiful and excellent in its sanctified and gracious state; but what shall we say, or how shall we conceive of it, when all spots of sin are perfectly washed off its beautiful face in Heaven, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon it! When its filthy garments are taken away, and the pure robes of perfect Holiness, as well as Righteousness, superinduced upon this excellent Creature! If the imperfect beauty of it, begun in Sanctification, enamoued its Saviour, and made him say, Thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one of the chains of thy neck; what will its beauty and his delight in it be in the state of perfectpunc;Glorification! As we imagine the Circles in the Heavens to be vastly greater than those we view upon the Globe, so must we imagine in the case before us.