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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.
Specimens and Earnests of Heaven are no unknown things upon earth. As the Grapes of Eshcol, so the joy of Heaven may be tasted before we come thither, and these foresights and Prelibations of Heaven are either 1. Extraordinary, Or, either 2. Ordinary.
SPecimens and Earnests of Heaven are no unknown things upon earth. As the Grapes of Eshcol, so the joy of Heaven may be tasted before we come thither, and these foresights and Praelibations of Heaven are either 1. Extraordinary, Or, either 2. Ordinary.
1. Extraordinary, for the way and manner; when the Soul is either (1) Rapt from the Body for a short time, in an Ecstasy, when in a Visional way heavenly things are presented to it: Or, (2) When the bodily eye is elevated and strengthened above its natural vigour and ability, to behold the astonishing Objects of the other World.
1. Extraordinary, for the way and manner; when the Soul is either (1) Rapt from the Body for a short time, in an Ecstasie, when in a Visional way heavenly things are presented to it: Or, (2) When the bodily eye is elevated and strengthened above its natural vigour and ability, to behold the astonishing Objects of the other World.
(1) Of the first sort and rank, was that famous Rapture of Paul, mentioned 2 Cor. 12.2, 3. I knew a man in Christ fourteen years ago, (whether in the Body I cannot tell, or whether out of the Body I cannot tell; God knoweth) such an one caught up to the Third Heaven, &c. *