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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.
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.
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, Ioh. 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 publick 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.