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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.
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.
- 1Prius•p•am ad no•tra tempora pervintum est. Camero.
Now both the Angels and Saints in Heaven do behold Christ in his Priestly Office within that Sanctuary, a sight never seen in Heaven before.
(2) This frame of heavenly Worship will continue as it is, until the end of the World, and then another alteration will be made in the manner of his dispensatory Kingdom. For then he must deliver up the Kingdom to God, even the Father, and then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him, that put all things under him, that God may be all in all, ⟨p. 233⟩as the Apostle speaks, 1 Cor. 15.24, 28. so that as the present state of Heaven is not in all respects, what it was before Christ's Ascension thither; so after the Consummation of the Mediatorial Kingdom, and the gathering all the Elect into Glory, it will not in all respects be what now it is.