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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.
If God at the delivering of the Law upon Mount Sinai strictly enjoined and required so great Purity and Holiness in that people,1 signified by the Ceremonies of two days preparation, the washing of their clothes, abstinence from conjugal society, &c. much more doth he require and expect it in us who are come under a much more excellent and Heavenly dispensation than theirs was.
If God at the delivering of the Law upon Mount Sinai strictly enjoyned and required so great Purity and Holiness in that people,1 signified by the Ceremonies of two days preparation, the washing of their cloaths, abstinence from conjugal society, &c. much more doth he require and expect it in us who are come under a much more excellent and Heavenly dispensation than theirs was.
To make good the sequel, he compares the legal and the evangelical Dispensations in many particulars, verse 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23. giving the Gospel the preference throughout the whole Collation.
In sum, the privileges of the New Testament-Believers are here stated, both negatively, and positively.
In summ, the priviledges of the New Testament-Believers are here stated, both negatively, and positively.