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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.
All these mistakes will fall together by one stroke; for if it evidently appear (as I hope it will) that the Spirits of the just are immediately taken to God, and do converse with and enjoy him in Heaven: Then all these Fancies vanish, without any more labour about them particularly. Now there are four Considerations which to me put the immediate glorification of the departed Souls of Believers, beyond all rational doubt.
All these mistakes will fall together by one stroak; for if it evidently appear (as I hope it will) that the Spirits of the just are immediately taken to God, and do converse with and enjoy him in Heaven: Then all these Fancies vanish, without any more labour about them particularly. Now there are four Considerations which to me put the immediate glorification of the departed Souls of Believers, beyond all rational doubt.
(1) Heaven is as ready and fit to receive them as ever it shall be. (2) They are as ready and fit for Heaven, as ever they shall be. (3) The Scripture is plainly for it. And (4) There is nothing in reason against it.
(1) Heaven is as ready and fit to receive them when they die, as ever it shall be. Heaven is prepared for Believers, (1) By the purpose and Decree of God, and so far it was prepared from the Foundation of the World, Matth. 25.34. (2) By the death of Christ, whose blood made the purchase of it for Believers, and so meritoriously opened the Gates thereof, which our sins had barred up against us, Heb. 10.19, 20. (3) By the Ascension of Christ into that holy place, as our Representative and Forerunner,