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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.
Consectary I.
That a Believers life and warfare end together. We lay not down our weapons of war, till we lie down in the dust, 2 Timothy 4.7. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course. The course and conflict you see are finished together. Though they commence from different terms, yet they always terminate together. Grace and sin have each acted its part upon the Stage of time, and the victory hovered doubtfully s•••times over Sin, and sometimes over Grace; but now the ••r is ended, and the quarrel decided, Grace keeps its ⟨p. 217⟩ground, and sin is finally vanquished. Now, and never before, the gracious Soul stands triumphing like that noble Argive, In vacuo solus Sessor Plausorque Theatro: not an Enemy left to renew the Combat, the war is ended, and with it all the fears and sorrows of the Saints.