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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.
(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, Eccles. 9.5. the living know that they must die.
(2.) The necessity of his death, it is not I may, but I must put off this my Tabernacle, yea, I must put it off shortly; for so the Lord had showed him: Christ had signified it expressly to him, John 21.18, 19. And besides this, most Expositors think this clause refers to some special vision or Revelation which Peter had of the time and manner of his own death: so that besides the natural necessity or the inevitableness of his death by the law of Nature; he was certified of it by special Revelation. We have here also