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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.
Secondly, He opens the positive privileges, to which we are come.
Secondly, He opens the positive priviledges, to which we are come.
(1) Ye are come, (saith he) to mount Zion, not the Earthly, but the Spiritual Zion. Mount Zion was the place celebrated above all the World for the Worship of God, Psal. 87.7. All my springs (saith God) are in thee. There was the Temple, the Ark of the Covenant, the glory of the Lord dwelling between the Cherubims. The Priests that attended the service of God, had their residence there, as the Angels have in Heaven. Thither the Tribes went up from all quarters of Judea, Psal. 84. as the children of God now do to Heaven from all Quarters of the World. Judea was the best Kingdom in the World; Jerusalem the best City in that Kingdom; and Zion the most glorious place in that City. Here Christ taught his heavenly Doctrine; near ⟨p. 187⟩to it he finished his glorious work of Redemption. Hence, the everlasting Gospel went forth into all the world: and on these considerations its put to signify the Gospel-Church or State in this place, and is therefore called the heavenly Jerusalem in the following words. We do not come to the literal Zion, nor to the earthly Jerusalem; but to the Gospel Church, or State, which may be called an Heaven upon earth, compared with that literal Jerusalem.
(1) Ye are come, (saith he) to mount Sion, not the Earthly, but the Spiritual Sion. Mount Sion was the place celebrated above all the World for the Worship of God, Psal. 87.7. All my springs (saith God) are in thee. There was the Temple, the Ark of the Covenant, the glory of the Lord dwelling between the Cherubims. The Priests that attended the service of God, had their residence there, as the Angels have in Heaven. Thither the Tribes went up from all quarters of Iudea,