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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.
In this manner and order was the stately Fabric of the World produced and erected, but as yet it remained as a fair and well furnished house without an Inhabitant. God had employed infinite wisdom and power about it, and engraven his name upon the meanest creature in it; but there was no creature yet made (except Angels, the inhabitants of another City) to read the name, and celebrate the praises of the Almighty Creator.
In this manner and order was the stately Fabrick of the World produced and erected, but as yet it remained as a fair and well furnished house without an Inhabitant. God had imployed infinite wisdom and power about it, and ingraven his name upon the meanest creature in it; but there was no creature yet made (except Angels, the inhabitants of another City) to read the name, and celebrate the praises of the Almighty Creatour.
He therefore thought the World imperfect till there was a Creature made that could contemplate, praise, and worship the Maker of it: for this very use and purpose was man created, that he might not only see, but consider the things he saw; discourse, and rationally collect out of them the things he saw not; and both praise and love the Maker for, and in them all.
The Palaces of Princes are not beautified and adorned to the intent men should pay their respects and honours to the Walls; but to show the Grandeur and Magnificence of the King, to whose person their honour is due, as Athenagoras in his excellent *Apology for the Christians speaks. The World is a glorious and magnificent Pile, raised designedly to exhibit the wisdom and power of its Creator, to the reasonable creature Man; that from him God might receive the glory of all his other works. Of this creature man, the Master-piece of all the visible world, (and therefore crowned King over it, the first moment he was made,