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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.
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.
Some help we may have to understand the nature thereof, by comparing it with that Worship and Service which we perform to God here in this state of imperfection, and by considering the agreements and disagreements betwixt them. In this they agree, that the worship above and below are both addressed and directed to one and the same Object; Father, Son, and Spirit; all centres and terminates in God. They also agree in the general quality, and common Nature; they are both spiritual Worship. But there are divers remarkable differences betwixt the one, and other, as will be manifest in the following collation.
Some help we may have to understand the nature thereof, by comparing it with that Worship and Service which we perform to God here in this state of imperfection, and by considering the agreements and disagreements betwixt them. In this they agree, that the worship above and below are both addressed and directed to one and the same Object; Father, Son, and Spirit; all centers and terminates in God. They also agree in the general quality, and common Nature; they are both spiritual Worship. But there are divers remarkable differences betwixt the one, and other, as will be manifest in the following collation.