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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.
That man is happy indeed, whose heart falls in with the Appointment of God, so voluntarily and freely, as that he dare not only look death in the face with confidence, but go along with it by consent of will. Remarkable to this purpose is that which the Apostle asserts of the frame of his own heart, 2 Cor. 5.8. We are confident, I say, and willing, rather to be absent from the Body, and present with the Lord. Here is both Confidence and Complacence, with respect to death. [Greek or Hebrew]. The word signifies Courage, Fortitude, or if you will, an undaunted boldness and presence of mind, when we look the King of Terrors in the face. We dare venture upon death, we dare take it by the cold hand, and bid it welcome. We dare defy its Enmity, and deride its noxious power, 1 Cor. 15.55. O Death, where is thy sting? And that's not all, we have Complacence in it, as well as Confidence to encounter it. [Greek or Hebrew]. We are willing, the Translation is too flat, we are well pleased, it is a desirable and grateful thing to us, to die: But yet not in an absolute, ⟨p. 173⟩but comparative Consideration, [Greek or Hebrew], we are willing rather, (i.e.) rather than not see and enjoy our Lord Jesus Christ: rather than to be here always sinning and groaning. There is no Complacency in death, in it self, it is not desirable. But if we must go through that strait gate, or not see God; we are willing rather to be absent from the Body. So that you see, death was not the matter of his submission only, he did not yield to what he could not avoid, but he balances the evils of death, with the Privileges it admits the Soul into, and then pronounces, [Greek or Hebrew], we are content, yea, pleased to die.
That man is happy indeed, whose heart falls in with the Appointment of God, so voluntarily and freely, as that he dare not only look death in the face with confidence, but go along with it by consent of will. Remarkable to this purpose is that which the Apostle asserts of the frame of his own heart, 2 Cor. 5.8. We are confident, I say, and willing, rather to be absent from the Body, and present with the Lord. Here is both Confidence and Complacence, with respect to death. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. The word signifies Courage, Fortitude, or if you will, an undaunted boldness and presence of mind, when we look the King of Terrours in the face. We dare venture upon death, we dare take it by the cold hand, and bid it welcome. We dare defie its Enmity, and deride its noxious power,