A39675:613
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.
(2.) By cutting off the lives of good men, God pays to Christ the reward of his Sufferings, the end of his death, which was to bring many Sons to glory, Hebr. 2.10. Alas, it answers not Christs end and intention in dying, to have his people so remote from him, John 17.24. He would have them where he is, that they might behold his glory. Two vehement desires are satisfied by this Appointment of God, and its Execution.
(2.) By cutting off the lives of good men, God pays to Christ the reward of his Sufferings, the end of his death, which was to bring many Sons to glory, Hebr. 2.10. Alas, it answers not Christs end and intention in dying, to have his people so remote from him, Iohn 17.24. He would have them where he is, that they might behold his glory. Two vehement desires are satisfied by this Appointment of God, and its Execution.
viz. 1. Christs. viz. 2. The Saints.
1. Christs desires are satisfied, for this is the thing he all along kept his eye upon, in the whole work of his Mediation, it was to bring us to God, 1 Pet. 3.18. Though he be in glory, yet his Mystical Body is not full, till all the elect be gathered in by Conversion, and gathered home by glorification,