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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.
This mental Separation may and ought to be frequently and seriously made, before death make the real and actual Separation; and the more frequently and seriously we do it, the less of horror and distraction will attend that real and fatal stroke when ever it shall be given. For hereby we learn to bear it gradually, and by gentle essays to acquaint our shoulders with the burden of it. Separation is a word that hath much of horror in the very sound, and useth to have much more in the sense and feeling of it; else it would not deserve that title, Job 8.14. The King of Terrors, or the most terrible of all terribles: but acquaintance and familiarity abates that horror, and that two ways especially.
This mental Separation may and ought to be frequently and seriously made, before death make the real and actual Separation; and the more frequently and seriously we do it, the less of horror and distraction will attend that real and fatal stroke when ever it shall be given. For hereby we learn to bear it gradually, and by gentle essays to acquaint our shoulders with the burden of it. Separation is a word that hath much of horror in the very sound, and useth to have much more in the sense and feeling of it; else it would not deserve that title, Iob 8.14. The King of Terrors, or the most terrible of all terribles: but acquaintance and familiarity abates that horror, and that two ways especially.
1. As it is preventive of much guilt. 2. As it gains a more inward knowledge of its Nature.
1. The serious and fixed thoughts of the parting hour is preventive of much guilt, and the greatest part of the horror of death rises out of the guilt of sin. The sting of death is sin,