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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.
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.
And where is the place prepared for them? but in his Fathers house; the same place, the very same house where the Father, Son and Spirit themselves do dwell: such is the love ⟨p. 369⟩of Christ to Souls, that he will not dwell in one house, and they in another; but as he speaks, Joh. 12.26. Where I am, there shall my servant also be. There is room enough in the Fathers house for Christ and all the Souls he redeemed to live and dwell together for evermore. His Ascension thither was in the capacity of a common or public person, to take Livery and Seisin of those many mansions for them, which are to be filled with their inhabitants, as they come thither in their respective times and orders.