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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.
In this Rapture his Soul ascended above this World, it was caught up into Paradise into the Third Heaven, the place in which Christ's Soul was after his death; and there he heard those [Greek or Hebrew] unspeakable words which it is not lawful for a man to utter: For alas! poor Mortals cannot pronounce the Shibboleth of Heaven; the heavenly Inhabitants talk in no other Dialect; but the Language of Heaven is not properly spoken by any, but the Inhabitants of Heaven. Now, Paul was not admitted into their Society at that time, as he was at his death, but was only a Spectator, a stander by, as the Angels are in the Assemblies of the Saints here on earth. But O what a day was that day to his Soul! It was as one of the days of Heaven; no words could signify to another man, what he felt, what he tasted in that hour. Such favours will not be indulged to many; he was a chosen Vessel, and appointed to extraordinary Sufferings for Christ, and it was necessary his Supports and Encouragements should be answerable.
In this Rapture his Soul ascended above this World, it was caught up into Paradise into the Third Heaven, the place in which Christ's Soul was after his death; and there he heard those 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 unspeakable words which it is not lawful for a man to utter: For alas! poor Mortals cannot pronounce the Shibboleth of Heaven; the heavenly Inhabitants talk in no other Dialect; but the Language of Heaven is not properly spoken by any, but the Inhabitants of Heaven. Now, Paul was not admitted into their Society at that time, as he was at his death, but was only a Spectator, a stander by, as the Angels are in the Assemblies of the Saints here on earth. But O what a day was that day to his Soul! It was as one of the days of Heaven; no words could signifie to another man, what he felt, what he tasted in that hour. Such favours will not be indulged to many; he was a chosen Vessel, and appointed to extraordinary Sufferings for Christ, and it was necessary his Supports and Encouragements should be answerable.
1It was no less extraordinary and wonderful a Vision which Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, and John had: such Representations of God as overwhelmed them, and made Nature faint under them; and no wonder, for if the eyes of Creatures be so weak, that they cannot directly behold such a glorious Creature as the Sun; How much less can they bear the glorious Excellency and Majesty of God?