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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 IV.
All that divine pleasure which ever the holiest and devoutest Soul enjoyed in the Body, is but a Sip, or Prelibation, compared with those full draughts it hath in the unbodied State.
All that divine pleasure which ever the holiest and devoutest Soul enjoyed in the Body, is but a Sip, or Praelibation, •ompared with those full draughts it hath in the unbodied State.
Whilst it is embodied, it rejoiceth in the Earnests and Pledges of joy, but when it is unbodied, it receives the full sum, Psal. 16.11. In thy presence is the fullness of joy. This fullness of joy is not to be expected, because not to be supported in this World. The joy of Heaven would quickly make the hoops of Nature fly. When a good man had but a little more than ordinary of the joy of the Lord poured into his Soul, he was heard to cry, Hold, Lord, hold, thy poor Creature is but a clay Vessel, and can hold no more. These Pleasures the Soul hath in the Body, are of the same kind indeed with those in Heaven, but are exceeding short of them in divers other respects.
Whilst it is embodied, it rejoyceth in the Earnests and Pledges of joy, but when it is unbodied, it receives the full summ, Psal. 16.11. In thy presence is the fulness of joy. This fulness of joy is not to be expected, because not to be supported in this World. The joy of Heaven would quickly make the hoops of Nature flie. When a good man had but a little more than ordinary of the joy of the Lord poured into his Soul, he was heard to cry, Hold, Lord, hold, thy poor Creature is but a clay Vessel, and can hold no more. These Pleasures the Soul hath in the Body, are of the same kind indeed with those in Heaven, but are exceeding short of them in divers other respects.