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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.
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.
But when he shall have gathered home all his Elect to glory,1 he will resign this dispensatory Kingdom, and become subject (as Man, and as Head of that Body which he purchased) to his Father himself, that God may be all in all, as it is, 1 Cor. 15.28.
- 1Nam si dispensativum hoc regnum nunquam traditurus esset, nunquam regni naturalis usum plenum esset recepturus. Junius.
(1) All in all, that is, All the Saints shall be filled and abundantly satisfied, in and from God alone; there shall be no Emptiness, no want, no complaint: For as there is water enough in one Sea to fill all Rivers, light enough in one Sun, to illuminate all the World; so all Souls shall be eternally filled, satisfied, and blessed in one God. Surely there is enough in God for Millions of Souls; for if there be enough in God for all the Angels,