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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. The Law or Appointment of God, which came in force immediately upon the Fall, Genes. 2.17. In the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely dye. And accordingly it took place upon all mankind immediately upon the first Transgression, Rom. 5.12. Death entered by sin•• The threatening not his immediate actual personal death, in the day that he should eat, but a state of Mortality to commence from that time, to him, and his posterity: hence its said, Heb. 9.27. It is appointed to all men once to die.
1. The Law or Appointment of God, which came in force immediately upon the Fall, Genes. 2.17. In the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely dye. And accordingly it took place upon all mankind immediately upon the first Transgression, Rom. 5.12. Death entred by sin•• The threatning not his immediate actual personal death, in the day that he should eat, but a state of Mortality to commence from that time, to him, and his posterity: hence its said, Heb. 9.27. It is appointed to all men once to die.
2. The Providence of God ordering and framing the Body of man suitably to this his Appointment;1 a frail, weak Creature, having the seeds of death in his Constitution: Thousands of Diseases and Infirmities are bred in his Nature, and the smallest pore in his Body, is a door large enough to let in death. Hence his Body is compared to a piece of cloth which Moths have fretted,