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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.
Consideration. III.
And as Intellectual pleasures do as far exceed all sensitive pleasures, as those which are proper to a man, do those which we have in common with Beasts: So Divine pleasures do again much more surmount Intellectual ones. For what compare is there betwixt those joys which surprise a Scholar in the discovery of the Secrets of Nature, and those that overwhelm and swallow up the Christian in the discovery of the glorious Mysteries of Redemption by Christ, and his own personal interest therein!
And as Intellectual pleasures do as far exceed all sensitive pleasures, as those which are proper to a man, do those which we have in common with Beasts: So Divine pleasures do again much more surmount Intellectual ones. For what compare is there betwixt those joys which surprize a Scholar in the discovery of the Secrets of Nature, and those that overwhelm and swallow up the Christian in the discovery of the glorious Mysteries of Redemption by Christ, and his own personal interest therein!
To solve the Phenomena of Nature is pleasant, but to solve all the difficulties about our Title to Christ and his Covenant, that is ravishing. Archimedes his [Greek or Hebrew], I have found it, was but the frisk or skip of a Boy: that rapturous voice of the Spouse, My Beloved is mine, and I am his. These are Entertainments ⟨p. 221⟩