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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. XI. The separated Souls of the Just do live in a more high and excellent way of Communion with God in his Temple-worship in Heaven, than ever they did in the sweetest Gospel-Ordinances, and most Spiritual Duties, in which they conversed with him here on Earth.
PROP. XI. The separated Souls of the Iust do live in a more high and excellent way of Communion with God in his Temple-worship in Heaven, than ever they did in the sweetest Gospel-Ordinances, and most Spiritual Duties, in which they conversed with him here on Earth.
THAT Saints on earth have real Communion with God, and that this Communion is the joy of their hearts, the life of their life, and their relief under all pressures and troubles in this life; is a truth so firmly sealed upon their hearts by experience, as well as clearly revealed in the Word, that there can remain no doubt about it among those that have any saving acquaintance with the life and power of Religion,
This Communion with God is of that precious value with Believers, that it unspeakably endears all those Duties and Ordinances to them, which as means and instruments are useful to maintain it.