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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
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.
But the Soul considered in full union with, and fruition of God its supreme Happiness, is accordingly furnished with the affections of Love, Delight, and Joy; whereby it rests in him, and enjoys its proper blessedness in his presence for ever. Yea, even in this life these affections are in an imperfect degree exercised upon God, according to the prelibations and enjoyments it hath of him by faith in its way to Heaven. In a word,
But the Soul considered in full union with, and fruition of God its supream Happiness, is accordingly furnished with the affections of Love, Delight, and Ioy; whereby it rests in him, and enjoys its proper blessedness in his presence for ever. Yea, even in this life these affections are in an imperfect degree exercised upon God, according to the prelibations and enjoyments it hath of him by faith in its way to Heaven. In a word,
The true uses and most excellent ends for which these affections and passions are bestowed upon the Soul of man, are to qualify it, and make it a fit subject to be wrought upon in a moral way of persuasions and allurements in order ⟨p. 29⟩to its union with Christ, (for by the affections, (as Mr. Fenner rightly observes) the Soul becomes marriageable, or capable of being espoused to him) and being so, then to assist it in the prosecution of its full enjoyment in Heaven, as we heard but now.
The true uses and most excellent ends for which these affections and passions are bestowed upon the Soul of man, are to qualifie it, and make it a fit subject to be wrought upon in a moral way of perswasions and allurements in order ⟨p. 29⟩to its union with Christ, (for by the affections, (as Mr. Fenner rightly observes) the Soul becomes marriageable, or capable of being espoused to him) and being so, then to assist it in the prosecution of its full enjoyment in Heaven, as we heard but now.