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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.
Now the two former we •ind frequently instanced in Scripture, as the effects of his creating Power, or works implying the Almighty power of God, and therefore are presented as strong props to our Faith, when it is weak and staggering, for want of visible matter of encouragement. Isa. 40.22. and 42.5. Jerem. 10.12. Job 9.8. Psal. 104.2. q. d. ⟨p. 36⟩Are my people in Captivity, and their Faith nonplussed and at a loss, because there's nothing in sight that hath a tendency to their deliverance, no prepared matter for their Salvation? why, let them consider who it was that created the Heavens, and the Earth, yea and their Souls also, which are so perplexed with doubts, out of nothing; the same God that did this, can also create Deliverance for his people, though there be no preexistent matter to work it out of.
Now the two former we •ind frequently instanced in Scripture, as the effects of his creating Power, or works implying the Almighty power of God, and therefore are presented as strong props to our Faith, when it is weak and staggering, for want of visible matter of incouragement. Isa. 40.22. and 42.5. Ierem. 10.12. Iob 9.8. Psal. 104.2. q. d. ⟨p. 36⟩Are my people in Captivity, and their Faith nonplust and at a loss, because there's nothing in sight that hath a tendency to their deliverance, no prepared matter for their Salvation? why, let them consider who it was that created the Heavens, and the Earth, yea and their Souls also, which are so perplexed with doubts, out of nothing; the same God that did this, can also create Deliverance for his people, though there be no praeexistent matter to work it out of.