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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.
And yet all are not handled alike roughly by the hands of death; some are favoured with a desirable [Greek or Hebrew], gentle and easy death▪
And yet all are not handled alike roughly by the hands of death; some are favoured with a desirable 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, gentle and easy death▪
'Tis the privilege of some Christians to have their Souls fetched out of their Bodies as it were by a kiss from the mouth of God, as the Jewish Rabbins use to express the manner of Moses his death. Mr. Bolton •elt no pain at his death, but the cold hand of his friend who asked him what pain he felt. Yea, holy Bayn•ham in the midst of the flames, professed it was to him as a Bed of Roses.
'Tis the priviledge of some Christians to have their Souls fetcht out of their Bodies as it were by a kiss from the mouth of God, as the Jewish Rabbins use to express the manner of Moses his death. Mr. Bolton •elt no pain at his death, but the cold hand of his friend who asked him what pain he felt. Yea, holy Bayn•ham in the midst of the flames, professed it was to him as a Bed of Roses.
Every Believer is equally freed from the sting and curse of death; but every one is not equally favoured in the agonies and pains of death.