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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.
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.
1. Negatively, by showing what we are exempted from. 2. Positively, showing what we are come unto.
1. Negatively, by shewing what we are exempted from. 2. Positively, shewing what we are come unto.
First, Negatively, What we are exempted or freed from, verse 18, 19, 20, 21. We are not come unto the Mount that might be touched, &c. The sum of all is this, that the promulgation of the Law was accompanied with amazing dread and terror. For after Moses by command from God had sanctified the Mount, and set Rails about it, that neither Priest, nor People, Man nor Beast, might touch the very borders of it, lest they dye: the Lord descended in fire upon the top of the Mountain the third day in the morning, with most terrible tokens of Divine Majesty, sc. with Thunderings, Lightnings, dark clouds, and the noise of a Trumpet exceeding loud; the Mount was covered with smoke, as the smoke of a Furnace, and flames mounting up unto the midst of Heaven,