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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.
At death, the people of God part with all those precious Ordinances and Duties, they being only designed for, and fitted to the present state of imperfection, Eph. 4.12, 13. but not at all to their loss, no more than it is to his, that loses the light of his candle, by the rising of the Sun. A Candle, a Star, is comfortable in the Night, but useless, when the Sun is up, and in it's meridian Glory. Christian, Pray much, hear much, and drive as profitable a trade as thou canst among the Ordinances of God, and duties of Religion: For the time is at hand that you shall serve and wait on God no more this way.
But yet think not your Souls shall be discharged from all Worship and Service of God when you dye: No, you will find Heaven to be a Temple built for worship, and the worship there to be much transcendent to all that in which ⟨p. 228⟩you were here employed. The Sanctuary was a pattern of Heaven in this very respect, Heb. 9.23. And on this very account it is called Zion in my Text, and the heavenly Jerusalem; as denoting a Church-state, and the spiritual Worship there performed by the Spirits of just men made perfect.
But yet think not your Souls shall be discharged from all Worship and Service of God when you dye: No, you will find Heaven to be a Temple built for worship, and the worship there to be much transcendent to all that in which ⟨p. 228⟩you were here employ'd. The Sanctuary was a pattern of Heaven in this very respect, Heb. 9.23. And on this very account it is called Sion in my Text, and the heavenly Ierusalem; as denoting a Church-state, and the spiritual Worship there performed by the Spirits of just men made perfect.