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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 third Seal opened, v. 5.6. sets forth the calamities which should befall the Church by Famine: Yet not so much a literal as a figurative Famine, as a grave and learned Commentator *expounds it, like that mentioned, Amos 8.11, 12. which fell out under Maximinus, and Trajan. The former directing the Persecution, especially against Ministers, in which, many bright Lamps were extinguished. The latter expressly condemned all Christian Meetings and ⟨p. 91⟩Assemblies by a Law. The Type by which this Persecution was set forth, is a black Horse. A gloomy and dismal day it was indeed to the poor Saints, when they eat the bread of their Souls, as it were by weight, for he that sate on him, had a pair of balances in his hand. Then did John hear this sad voice, A measure of wheat for a Penny, and three measures of Barley for a penny. That quantity was but the ordinary allowance, to keep a man a live for a day. And a Roman Penny was the ordinary wages given for a days work to a labourer. The meaning is, that in those days, all the Spiritual food men should get, to keep their Souls alive from day to day, with all their travel and labour, should be but sufficient for that end.
1The third Seal opened, v. 5.6. sets forth the calamities which should befal the Church by Famine: Yet not so much a literal as a figurative Famine, as a grave and learned Commentator *expounds it, like that mentioned, Amos 8.11, 12. which fell out under Maximinus, and Trajan. The former directing the Persecution, especially against Ministers, in which, many bright Lamps were extinguished. The latter expresly condemned all Christian Meetings and ⟨p. 91⟩Assemblies by a Law. The Type by which this Persecution was set forth, is a black Horse. A gloomy and dismal day it was indeed to the poor Saints, when they eat the bread of their Souls, as it were by weight, for he that sate on him, had a pair of ballances in his hand. Then did Iohn hear this sad voice, A measure of wheat for a Penny, and three measures of Barley for a penny. That quantity was but the ordinary allowance, to keep a man a live for a day. And a Roman Penny was the ordinary wages given for a days work to a labourer. The meaning is, that in those days, all the Spiritual food men should get, to keep their Souls alive from day to day, with all their travel and labour, should be but sufficient for that end.