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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.
II. We have here the Motive or consideration stimulating and provoking him to this diligence, knowing that I must shortly put off this Tabernacle, even as the Lord Jesus Christ hath showed me: in which words he gives an account of (1) The speediness, (2) Necessity, (3) Voluntariness of his death, and the way and means by which he knew it. All these must be considered singly and apart, and then valued altogether as they amount to a weighty Argument or Motive to excite him to diligence in his his duty.
II. We have here the Motive or consideration stimulating and provoking him to this diligence, knowing that I must shortly put off this Tabernacle, even as the Lord Iesus Christ hath shewed me: in which words he gives an account of (1) The speediness, (2) Necessity, (3) Voluntariness of his death, and the way and means by which he knew it. All these must be considered singly and apart, and then valued altogether as they amount to a weighty Argument or Motive to excite him to diligence in his his duty.
(1.) He reflects upon the speediness or near approach of his death.1 I must [shortly] put off this my Tabernacle; which is a form of Speech of the same importance with that of Paul, 2 Tim. 4.6. The time of my departure is at hand, my time in the Body is almost at an end.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew], brevi suturum. Every Christian knows not the time of his death as Peter did by special Revelation.— But though we know it not by a word spoken to us in particular, we know it by a word written for all in common, Eccles. 9.5. the living know that they must die.〈non-Latin alphabet〉, brevi suturum. Every Christian knows not the time of his death as Peter did by special Revelation.— But though we know it not by a word spoken to us in particular, we know it by a word written for all in common,