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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.
All these jointly make up the foundation of our faith and hope of glory. But if our Souls perish, or be annihilated at death, our Faith, Hope, and Comforts are all Delusions, ⟨p. 113⟩vain Dreams which do but abuse our fond Imaginations. For
All these joyntly make up the foundation of our faith and hope of glory. But if our Souls perish, or be annihilated at death, our Faith, Hope, and Comforts are all Delusions, ⟨p. 113⟩vain Dreams which do but abuse our fond Imaginations. For
(1.) It was not worth so great a stoop and abasement of the blessed God, as he submitted to, in his Incarnation, wherein he appeared in flesh, yea, in the likeness of sinful flesh, Rom. 8.3. and made himself of no reputation, Philip. 2.7. An act that is, and ever will be admired by men and Angels: I say, it was not worth so great a Miracle as this, to procure for us the vanishing comfort of a few years, and that short-lived comfort, no other than a deluding Dream, or mocking Phantasm; For seeing it consists in hope and expectation from the world to come, as the Scriptures every where speak, 1 Thes. 5.8. and 2 Cor. 3.12. Rom. 5.3, 4, 5. if there be no such enjoyments for us there, (as most certainly there are not, if our Souls perish) it is but a vanity, a thing of nought, that was the errand upon which the Son of God came from the fathers bosom, to procure for us.