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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.
PROP. IX. The Pleasures and Delights of the separate Spirits of the just, are incomparably greater and sweeter, than those they did, or at any time could experience in their bodily state.
With what a pleasant face would death smile upon Believers, what Roses would it raise in its pale cheeks, if this Proposition were but well settled in our hearts by faith! And if we will not be wanting to our selves, it may be firmly settled there, by these four Considerations, which demonstrate it.
WIth what a pleasant face would death smile upon Believers, what Roses would it raise in its pale cheeks, if this Proposition were but well setled in our hearts by faith! And if we will not be wanting to our selves, it may be firmly settled there, by these four Considerations, which demonstrate it.
Consideration I.
Whatsoever Pleasure any man receives in this World, he receives it by means of his Soul. Even all corporeal and sensitive delights have no other relish and sweetness, but what the Soul gives them; which is demonstrable by this, that if a man be placed amidst all the pleasing Objects and Circumstances in the World, if he were in that Centre where he might have the confluence of all the delights of this World; yet if the Spirit be wounded, there is no more relish or savour in them, than in the White of an Egg. What pleasure had Spira in his Liberty, Estate, Wife and Children? These things were indeed proposed and urged again and again to relieve him; but instead of pleasure, they became his horror: let but the mind be wounded, and all the mirth is marred; one touch from God upon the Spirit, destroys all the joy of this World. Nay,