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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 love of Christ is to be the supreme love, and all others to be subordinate to it, or quenched by it. 'Tis not its own comfort in the Body, it principally and ultimately designs and aims at, but Christs glory, and so this may be ⟨p. 144⟩furthered by the death of the Body, its death thereupon becomes as eligible to the Soul, as its life, Philip. 1.20. O this is an high pitch of grace! A great attainment, to say as one did, Vivere renuo, ut Christo vivam; I refuse life to be with Christ: Or another when asked whether he was willing to dye, answered, Illius est nolle mori, qui nolit ire ad Christum; Let him be loth to dye, that is loth to go to Christ So 2 Cor. 5. We are willing rather to be absent from the Body, and present with the Lord.
The love of Christ is to be the supream love, and all others to be subordinate to it, or quenched by it. 'Tis not its own comfort in the Body, it principally and ultimately designs and aims at, but Christs glory, and so this may be ⟨p. 144⟩furthered by the death of the Body, its death thereupon becomes as eligible to the Soul, as its life, Philip. 1.20. O this is an high pitch of grace! A great attainment, to say as one did, Vivere renuo, ut Christo vivam; I refuse life to be with Christ: Or another when asked whether he was willing to dye, answered, Illius est nolle mori, qui nolit ire ad Christum; Let him be loth to dye, that is loth to go to Christ So 2 Cor. 5. We are willing rather to be absent from the Body, and present with the Lord.
'Tis not every Christian that can arrive to this degree of Lov•• though they love Christ sincerely, yet they shrink from death cowardly and are loth to be gone. There are two sorts of grounds upon which Christians may be loth to be unbodied, 1. Sinful, 2. Allowable.