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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.
Upon this change of the mediums of Communion it will follow, that the Communion betwixt God and the separate Soul, excels all the Communion it ever had with him on Earth, in (1) The Clearness. in (2) The Sweetness of it. in (3) The Constancy.
Upon this change of the mediums of Communion it will follow, that the Communion betwixt God and the separate Soul, excells all the Communion it ever had with him on Earth, in (1) The Clearness. in (2) The Sweetness of it. in (3) The Constancy.
(1) Its Visions of God in the state of Separation, are more clear, distinct, and direct than they were on earth; Clouds and Shadows are now fled away. The Soul now seeth as it is seen, and knoweth as it is known, its apprehensions of God there differ from those it had here, as the crude and confused apprehensions of a Child, do from those we have in the manly state.
(1) Its Visions of God in the state of Separation, are more clear, distinct, and direct than they were on earth; Clouds and Shadows are now fled away. The Soul now seeth as it is seen, and knoweth as it is known, its apprehensions of God there differ from those it had here, as the crade and confused apprehensions of a Child, do from those we have in the manly state.
(2) They are also more sweet and ravishing. As our Visions are, so are our Pleasures: Perfect Visions produce perfect Pleasures. The faculties of the Soul now, and never till now, lie level to that rule, Matth. 22.37. The Visions of God command and call forth all the heart and soul, mind, and strength, into acts of love and delight. It was not so here, if the Spirit were willing, the Flesh was weak, but there the clog is off from the foot of the Will.