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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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4. Fourthly, The preparations God makes for Souls in Heaven, speak their great worth and value. When you lift up your eyes to Heaven, and behold that bespangled Azure Canopy, beset and inlaid with so many golden Studs, and sparkling Gems, you see but the floor or pavement of that place which God hath prepared for some Souls. He furnished this World for us before he put us into it; but as delightful and beautiful as it is, it is no more to be compared with the Fathers house in Heaven, than the smallest ruined Chapel your eyes ever beheld, is to be compared with Solomons Temple when it stood in all its shining glory.
When you see a stately magnificent Structure built, richest Hangings and Furniture prepared to adorn it, you conclude some great persons are to come thither; such preparations speak the quality of the Guests.
Now Heaven, yea the Heaven of Heavens, the Palace of the great King, the Presence-chamber of the Godhead is prepared, not only by Gods Decree and Christs Death, but by his Ascension thither in our Names, and as our Forerunner for all renewed and redeemed Souls: Joh. 14.2. In my Fathers house are many mansions, if it were not so, I would have told you; I go to prepare a place for you.
Now Heaven, yea the Heaven of Heavens, the Palace of the great King, the Presence-chamber of the Godhead is prepared, not only by Gods Decree and Christs Death, but by his Ascension thither in our Names, and as our Forerunner for all renewed and redeemed Souls: Ioh. 14.2. In my Fathers house are many mansions, if it were not so, I would have told you; I go to prepare a place for you.