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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 III.
Separated Souls are more lovely Companions, and their Converses more sweet and delightful than ever they were in this World. It was their corruption which spoiled their Communion on earth; and it is their spotless holiness which makes it incomparably pleasant in Heaven. The best and loveliest Saints have something in them, which is distasteful; even sweet Briars, and holy Thistles, have their offensive Prickles; but when that which was so lovely on earth, is made perfect in Heaven, and nothing of that remains in Heaven, which was so offensive in them on earth; O what delightful Companions will they be! O blessed Society! O ⟨p. 218⟩most desirable Companions, let my Soul for ever be united to their assembly. I love them under their Corruptions, but how shall my Soul be knit to them when it seeth them shining in their Perfections!
Separated Souls are more lovely Companions, and their Converses more sweet and delightful than ever they were in this World. It was their corruption which spoil'd their Communion on earth; and it is their spotless holiness which makes it incomparably pleasant in Heaven. The best and loveliest Saints have something in them, which is distastful; even sweet Bryars, and holy Thistles, have their offensive Prickles; but when that which was so lovely on earth, is made perfect in Heaven, and nothing of that remains in Heaven, which was so offensive in them on earth; O what delightful Companions will they be! O blessed Society! O ⟨p. 218⟩most desirable Companions, let my Soul for ever be united to their assembly. I love them under their Corruptions, but how shall my Soul be knit to them when it seeth them shining in their Perfections!