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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.
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?
1It was no less extraordinary and wonderful a Vision which Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, and Iohn 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?
(2) And sometimes without an Ecstasy, Representations of Christ and the glory of Heaven have been made, and the very bodily eye fortified and elevated above its natural vigour and ability to behold them. Thus it was with Stephen at his Martyrdom, Acts 7.55, 56. Who being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly into Heaven, and saw the Glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God. That this was not a sight of faith, but an extraordinary sight by the bodily eye, is evident from its effect upon his outward man, it made his face shine as the face of an Angel.