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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.
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.
Christ will never cease to be the immediate head of the whole glorified Creation. God having gathered all the Elect, both Angels and Men, unto an head in him, and he being the Knot or Centre of that Collective Body; the whole frame of the glorified Church would be dissolved, should he lose his relation of an head to it. Yea, I doubt not but he will for ever continue to be the medium of Communication betwixt God and his glorified Church: God will still Communicate himself to us through Christ, and our adherence, love and delight, will still be through Christ: In a word, whatever change shall be made, the Person of Christ, and therein his humane nature, shall still continue to be the eternal Object of Divine Glory, Praise, and Worship, Rev. 22.4.