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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.
They had the ministry of Angels as well as we, thousands of them ministered to the Lord in the dispensation of the Law at Sinai, Psal. 68.17. But this notwithstanding, we are come to a much clearer knowledge both of their present Ministry for us on earth, Heb. 1.14. and of our fellowship and equality with them in Heaven, Luke 20.36.
They had the ministry of Angels as well as we, thousands of them ministred to the Lord in the dispensation of the Law at Sinai, Psal. 68.17. But this notwithstanding, we are come to a much clearer knowledge both of their present Ministry for us on earth, Heb. 1.14. and of our fellowship and equality with them in Heaven, Luke 20.36.
(3) Ye are come to the general assembly and Church of the first-born, whose names are written (or enrolled) in Heaven.] This also greatly commends and amplifies the privileges of New Testament-Believers; the Church of God in former ages was circumscribed and shut up within the narrow limits of one small Kingdom, which was as a garden enclosed out of a waste wilderness: but now by the calling in of the Gentiles the Church is extended far and wide, Eph. 3.5, 6. It is become a great Assembly comprising the Believers of all Nations under Heaven; and so speaking of them collectively, it is the general convention or Assembly, which is also dignified and ennobled by two illustrious characters, viz. (1) that it is the Church of the first-born, (i. e.) consisting of Members dignified and privileged above others,