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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.
(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,1 as the first-born among the Israelites did excel their younger Brethren (2) That their names are written in Heaven, (i. e.) registered or enrolled in Gods book as Children and Heirs of the Heavenly inheritance, as the first-born in Israel were registered in order to the Priesthood, Num ▪ 3.40, 41.
(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 priviledges 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 inclosed 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 comprizing 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 priviledged above others,1 as the first-born among the Israelites did excel their younger Brethre• (2) That their names are written in Heaven, (i. e.) registred or enrolled in Gods book as Children and Heirs of the Heavenly inheritance, as the first-born in Israel were registred in order to the Priesthood, Num 3.40, 41.