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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.
2. Secondly, Those that live as Strangers and Pilgrims on earth, seeking a better place and state than this World affords them, for them God hath made preparations in glory. Hebr. 11.13, 16. If you be strangers on earth, you are the Inhabitants of Heaven: Now there be six things included in this Character.
(1.) They look not on this World as their own home, nor on the people of it, as their own people, 2 Cor. 5.8. [Greek or Hebrew], to be unpeopled. These are none of my fellow Citizens, we must go two ways at death. (2.) They set not their affections on things present as their portion, 2 Cor. 4.18. Psal. 17.13, 14. Their Bodies are here, their Hearts in Heaven. ⟨p. 177⟩(3) Their carriage and manner of life not like the men of this World, 1 Pet. 4.4. [Greek or Hebrew]. So the Rule guides them, Rom. 12.2. and so their course is steered, at least intended, Philip. 3.20. our [Greek or Hebrew], our Trade is in Heaven. (4) Their Dialect and Language differs from the Natives of this World. Their Language is earthly, 1 John 4.5, 6. but these have a pure lip. Zeph. 3.9. (5) Their Society and chosen Companions are not of this World,