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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.
8. We have here Duties of divers kinds and natures to perform. All our time is not to be spent in loving, praising, and delighting in God: but we must turn our selves also to searching, watching, and Soul-humbling work. Sometimes we are called to get up our hearts to the highest praise, and then to humble them to the dust for sin and judgments. One while to sing his praises, and another while to sigh even to the breaking of our loins: but the Spirits of just men made perfect, have but one kind of employment, viz praising, loving and delighting in God. There is no groaning, sighing, searching, or watching-work in that state.
8. We have here Duties of divers kinds and natures to perform. All our time is not to be spent in loving, praising, and delighting in God: but we must turn our selves also to searching, watching, and Soul-humbling work. Sometimes we are called to get up our hearts to the highest praise, and then to humble them to the dust for sin and judgments. One while to sing his praises, and another while to sigh even to the breaking of our loins: but the Spirits of just men made perfect, have but one kind of imployment, viz praising, loving and delighting in God. There is no groaning, sighing, searching, or watching-work in that state.
9. The most illuminated Believers on Earth have but dark and crude apprehensions of Christs intercession work in Heaven, or of the way and manner in which it is there performed by him. We know indeed, that our High-Priest is for us entered within the veil, Heb. 6.20. That he appears in that most holy place for us, Heb. 9.24. That he there represents his sufferings for us to God, standing before him as a Lamb that had been slain, Rev. 5.6. That he offers up our prayers with his incense to God, Rev. 8.3