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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.
But in the same moment the Soul is cut off from union with the Body, it is also cut off from both these ways of enjoying God, 1 Cor. 13.12 Isai. 38.11. But yet the Soul is no loser, nay, it is the greatest Gainer by this change. The Child is no loser by ceasing to derive its nourishment by the Navel, when it comes to receive it by the mouth; a more noble way, whereby it gets a new pleasure in tasting the variety of all delectable Food. Hezekiah bemoaned the loss of Ordinances upon his supposed death-bed, saying, I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord in the Land of the living. q. d. Now farewell Temple and Ordinances; I shall never go any more into his Temple where my Soul hath been so often cheered and refreshed with the displays of his grace and goodness. ⟨p. 201⟩I shall never more join with the Assembly of his people on earth: And suppose he had not, sure he would have lost nothing, had he then exchanged the Temple at Jerusalem, for the Temple in Heaven, and Communion with sinful imperfect Saints on earth, for fellowship with Angels, and the Spirits of just men made perfect. By this change we lose no more than he loseth, who whilst he stands delightfully contemplating the image of his dearest friend in a glass, hath the glass snatched away by his friend, whom he now seeth face to face.
But in the same moment the Soul is cut off from union with the Body, it is also cut off from both these ways of enjoying God, 1 Cor. 13.12 Isai. 38.11. But yet the Soul is no loser, nay, it is the greatest Gainer by this change. The Child is no loser by ceasing to derive its nourishment by the Navel, when it comes to receive it by the mouth; a more noble way, whereby it gets a new pleasure in tasting the variety of all delectable Food. Hezekiah bemoaned the loss of Ordinances upon his supposed death-bed, saying, I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord in the Land of the living. q. d. Now farewel Temple and Ordinances; I shall never go any more into his Temple where my Soul hath been so often cheared and refresht with the displays of his grace and goodness. ⟨p. 201⟩