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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.
II. Next he tells us what he heard, and that was, 1. A vehement Cry from those Souls to God. 2. A gracious Answer from God to them.
1. The cry which they uttered with a loud voice was this, How long, O Lord, Holy, and True, dost thou not avenge our blood on them that dwell on the Earth? A cry like that from the blood of Abel. Yet let it be remembered (1) This cry doth not imply these holy Souls to be in a restless state, or to want true satisfaction and repose out of the Body; no• yet (2) that they carried with them to Heaven any malevolent or revengeful disposition; but that which is principally signified by this Cry, is their vehement desire after the abolition of the Kingdom of Satan, and the Completion and Consummation of Christs Kingdom in this World. That those his Enemies which oppose his Kingdom, by slaying his Saints, may be made his footstool, which is the same thing Christ waits for in glory, Heb. 10.13.
1. The cry which they uttered with a loud voice was this, How long, O Lord, Holy, and True, dost thou not avenge our bloud on them that dwell on the Earth? A cry like that from the blood of Abel. Yet let it be remembred (1) This cry doth not imply these holy Souls to be in a restless state, or to want true satisfaction and repose out of the Body; no• yet (2) that they carried with them to Heaven any malevolent or revengeful disposition; but that which is principally signified by this Cry, is their vehement desire after the abolition of the Kingdom of Satan, and the Completion and Consummation of Christs Kingdom in this World. That those his Enemies which oppose his Kingdom, by slaying his Saints, may be made his footstool, which is the same thing Christ waits for in glory, Heb. 10.13.