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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.
Now, herein God greatly honours his people, that there shall be some resemblance and conformity betwixt their Ascension and Christs; *they rejoice to attend those to Heaven, who must be their fellow Citizens for ever in Heaven! It is convenient also, that those who had the charge of us all our life, should attend us to our Fathers house at our death. In the one they finish their ministry, in the other, they begin their more intimate Society.
- *Quomodo inservierunt capiti, eo modo inserviunt etiam membris. Gaudent inservi•• i•lis in terris, quosaliquando socios habebunt in coelis. Gerhard.
Moreover, the Angels are they whom God will employ to gather together his Elect from the four winds of Heaven at the great day, Matth. 24.31. and who more fit to attend their Spirits to Heaven singly, than those who must collect them into one Body at last, and wait upon that collective Body, when they shall be brought to Christ? Psal. 45.14.
Moreover, the Angels are they whom God will imploy to gather together his Elect from the four winds of Heaven at the great day, Matth. 24.31. and who more fit to attend their Spirits to Heaven singly, than those who must collect them into one Body at last, and wait upon that collective Body, when they shall be brought to Christ? Psal. 45.14.