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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. 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, Eph. 1.23. The Church is his fullness. He is not fully satisfied, till he see his seed, the Souls he died for, safe in Heaven; and then the debt due to him for all his Sufferings is fully paid him, Isai. 53.11. He sees the travel of his Soul. As it is the greatest satisfaction and pleasure a man is capable of in this World, to see a great design which hath been long projecting, and managing, at last by an orderly conduct brought to its perfection.
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, Eph. 1.23. The Church is his fulness. He is not fully satisfied, till he see his seed, the Souls he died for, safe in Heaven; and then the debt due to him for all his Sufferings is fully paid him, Isai. 53.11. He sees the travel of his Soul. As it is the greatest satisfaction and pleasure a man is capable of in this World, to see a great design which hath been long projecting, and mannaging, at last by an orderly conduct brought to its perfection.
2. The desires of the Saints are hereby satisfied, and their weary Souls brought to rest. O what do gracious Souls more pant after than the full Enjoyment of God, and the Visions of his face! The state of freedom from sin, and complete Conformity to Jesus Christ! From the day of their Espousals to Christ, these desires have been working in their Souls. Love and Patience have each acted its part in them,