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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.
(1). That all the Spirits of just men from the beginning of the World, until Christs ascension into Heaven, did enter into Heaven as a place of rest, as a City prepared for them of God, Heb. 11.16. and did enjoy blessedness and Glory there: but yet there seems to be an alteration even in Heaven it self, since the Ascension of Christ into it, and such an alteration as advanceth the glory thereof both to Angels and Saints.1 Heaven it self (saith one who is now there) was not what it is, before the entrance of Christ into the Sanctuary for the administration of his Office. Neither the Saints departed, nor the Angels themselves were participant of that glory which now they are. Neither yet doth this argue any defect in Heaven, or the state thereof in its primitive constitution: For the perfection of any state hath respect unto that order of things which it is originally suited unto. Take all things in the order of the first Creation, and with respect thereunto, Heaven was perfect in Glory from the beginning,2 &c.
- 1Dr. Owen's Coristologia, p. 158.
- 2Page 355.
Whatever was their rest, refreshment, and blessedness; whatever were their enjoyments of the presence of God: yet was there no Throne of Grace erected in Heaven, no High-Priest appearing before it, no Lamb as it had been slain, no joint ascription of Glory unto him that sits upon the Throne,1 and to the Lamb for ever; God having ordained some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect, Heb. 11.40