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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.
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.
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 entred within the vail, 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.
But the immediate intuition of the whole performance by the person of Christ in Heaven, the beholding of him in his work there, with the smiles and honours, the delight and satisfaction of the Father in his Person and Work: certainly, this must be a far different thing, and what must make more deep and suitable impressions upon our hearts, than ever the most affecting view of them by Faith at this distance, could do.