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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.
Inference VII.
HOW great a blessing is the Gospel which brings life and immortality to light, the most desirable mercies to immortal Souls? This is the great benefit we receive by it, as the Apostle speaks, 2 Tim. 1.10. Christ hath abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light by the Gospel. Life and immortality by a [Greek or Hebrew], is put for immortal life, the thing which all immortal Souls desire and long for. These desires are found in Souls that enjoy not the Gospel-light; for as I said before, they naturally spring out of the very nature of all immortal Souls But how, and where it is to be obtained, that is a secret, for which we are entirely beholding to the Gospel-discovery. It lay hid in the Womb of Gods purpose, till by the light of Gospel Revelation it was made manifest. But now all men may see what are the gracious thoughts and purposes of God concerning men, and what that •s he hath designed for their Immortal Souls even an Immortal life, and this life is to be obtained by Christ, than which, no tidings can be more welcome, sweet or acceptable to us.
HOW great a blessing is the Gospel which brings life and immortality to light, the most desirable mercies to immortal Souls? This is the great benefit we receive by it, as the Apostle speaks, 2 Tim. 1.10. Christ hath abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light by the Gospel. Life and immortality by a 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, is put for immortal life, the thing which all immortal Souls desire and long for. These desires are found in Souls that enjoy not the Gospel-light; for as I said before, they naturally spring out of the very nature of all immortal Souls But how, and where it is to be obtained, that is a secret, for which we are entirely beholding to the Gospel-discovery. It lay hid in the Womb of Gods purpose, till by the light of Gospel Revelation it was made manifest. But now all men may see what are the gracious thoughts and purposes of God concerning men, and what that s he hath designed for their Immortal Souls even an Immortal life, and this life is to be obtained by Christ, than which, no tidings can be more welcome, sweet or acceptable to us.