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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.
1The first Seal opened, Ver. 2. gives the Church a very encouraging and comfortable prospect of the Victories, Successes, and Triumphs of Christ, notwithstanding the Rage, Subtlety, and power of all its Enemies. He shall ride on Conquering, and to Conquer; and his Arrows shall be sharp in the Hearts of his Enemies, whereby the People shall fall under him. And this cheering Prospect was no more than was needful. For
1The first Seal opened, Ver. 2. gives the Church a very encouraging and comfortable prospect of the Victories, Successes, and Triumphs of Christ, notwithstanding the Rage, Subtilty, and power of all its Enemies. He shall ride on Conquering, and to Conquer; and his Arrows shall be sharp in the Hearts of his Enemies, whereby the People shall fall under him. And this chearing Prospect was no more than was needful. For
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1The second Seal opened, ver. 3. and 4. represents the first bloody Persecution of the Church under Nero, whom Tertullian calls Dedicator damnationis nostrae:2 He that first condemned Christians to the Slaughter. And the Persecution under him, is set forth by the Type of a red Horse, and a great Sword in the hand of him that rode thereon. His cruelty is by Paul compared to the mouth of a Lion. 2 Tim. 4.17. Paul, Peter, Bartholomew, Barnabas, Mark, are all said to dye by his cruel hand: and so fierce was his rage against the Christians, that at that time, as Eusebius saith, *a man might then see Cities lie full of dead Bodies, the old and young, Men and Women cast out naked, without any reverence of Persons or Sex, in the open street.