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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.
The declared, and direct end of this work of the Spirit upon our Souls, is to attemper and dispose them for Heaven, Col. 1.12. For seeing nothing that is unclean can enter into the holy place, Revel. 21.27. And without holiness no man shall see the Lord, Heb. 12.14. It is necessary that all those that have this hope in them, should expect to be partakers of their hopes in the way of purification, 1 John 3.3. And this is the ground upon which the people of God do ⟨p. 115⟩mortify their lusts, and take so much pain with their own hearts, Matt. 18.8. counting it better (as their Lord tells them) to enter into life halt, or maimed, than having two eyes or hands to be cast into Hell. But to what purpose is all this self-denial, all these heart-searchings, heart-humblings, cries and tears upon the account of Sin, and for an heart suited to the will of God, if there be no such life to be enjoyed with God, after this animal life is finished?
The declared, and direct end of this work of the Spirit upon our Souls, is to attemper and dispose them for Heaven, Col. 1.12. For seeing nothing that is unclean can enter into the holy place, Revel. 21.27. And without holiness no man shall see the Lord, Heb. 12.14. It is necessary that all those that have this hope in them, should expect to be partakers of their hopes in the way of purification, 1 Iohn 3.3. And this is the ground upon which the people of God do ⟨p. 115⟩