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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.
(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.
(2) And sometimes without an Ecstasie, Representations of Christ and the glory of Heaven have been made, and the very bodily eye fortified and elevated above its natural vigor 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 stedfastly into Heaven, and saw the Glory of God, and Iesus 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.
2. There are also beside these, ordinary and more common foretasts of Heaven and the glory to come, with which many Believers are favoured in this World. And such are those which come into the heart upon the steady and more fixed views of the World to come by Faith, and the more raised and Spiritual actings of grace in duty. Believing we rejoice with joy unspeakable, and full of glory, 1 Pet. 1.8. [Greek or Hebrew] with a glorified joy, or a joy of the same kind and nature with the joy of glorified Spirits; though in an inferior and allayed degree.
2. There are also beside these, ordinary and more common foretasts of Heaven and the glory to come, with which many Believers are favoured in this World. And such are those which come into the heart upon the steddy and more fixed views of the World to come by Faith, and the more raised and Spiritual actings of grace in duty. Believing we rejoice with joy unspeakable, and full of glory,