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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.
(3) His Comforting work is a sweet fruit and effect sensibly felt and tasted by believers in this World. He is from this Office styled the Comforter, John 16.7. signanter, & eminenter. He so comforts, as no other doth, or can. And what is the matter of his comforts, but the Blessedness to come, the joys of the coming World? John 16.13. Eye hath not seen, &c.
(3) His Comforting work is a sweet fruit and effect sensibly felt and tasted by believers in this World. He is from this Office stiled the Comforter, Iohn 16.7. signanter, & eminenter. He so comforts, as no other doth, or can. And what is the matter of his comforts, but the Blessedness to come, the joys of the coming World? Iohn 16.13. Eye hath not seen, &c.
Upon the account of these unseen things, he enableth believers to glory in tribulations, Rom. 5.4. to despise present things, whether the smiles or the frowns of the World, Heb. 11.24. and v. 26. But if the being of our Souls fail at death, these are but the Fantastic joys of men in a dream, and the experiences of all Gods people are found but so many fond conceits, and gross mistakes.
Upon the account of these unseen things, he enableth believers to glory in tribulations, Rom. 5.4. to despise present things, whether the smiles or the frowns of the World, Heb. 11.24