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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.
DOCT I. How s•rong soever the Affections and inclinations of Souls are to the fleshly Tabernacles they now live in, yet they must put them off, and that speedily.
(1)THE point lies very plain before us in the Scriptures. That is a remarkable expression we have in Job 16.22. When a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return; in the Hebrew it is, when the years of number, or my numbered years are come; years so numbered, that they are circumscribed in a very short, period of time: when those few years are past, then I must go to my long home, my everlasting abode, never more to return to this world: The way whence I shall not return: elsewhere called the way of all flesh, Josh. 23.15. and the way of all the earth, 1 King 2.2.
(1)THE point lies very plain before us in the Scriptures. That is a remarkable expression we have in Iob 16.22. When a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return; in the Hebrew it is, when the years of number, or my numbred years are come; years so numbred, that they are circumscribed in a very short, period of time: when those few years are past, then I must go to my long home, my everlasting abode, never more to return to this world: The way whence I shall not return: elsewhere called the way of all flesh, Iosh. 23.15. and the way of all the earth, 1 King 2.2.
- (1)The certainty of death, Jo• 16.22. Anni numeri (i. e.) qui numerati sunt adeo ut brevissimi periodo circumscripti.