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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.
1. Mediate in and by the previous use and exercise of Faith, heart-Examination, &c. the Spirit of God concurring with, and blessing of such duties as these, helps the Soul by them to a sight of its interest in Christ and the glory to come; which being gained, joy is no more under the Souls command. I have with good assurance, this account of a Minister, who being alone in a Journey, and willing to make the best improvement he could of that days Solitude; set himself to a close Examination of the state of his Soul; and then of the life to come, and the manner of its being and living in Heaven, in the views of all those things which are now pure Objects of Faith, and Hope. After a while, he perceived his thoughts begin to fix, and come closer to these great and astonishing things, than was usual; and as his mind settled upon them, his affections began to rise with answerable liveliness and vigour.
1. Mediate in and by the previous use and exercise of Faith, heart-Examination, &c. the Spirit of God concurring with, and blessing of such duties as these, helps the Soul by them to a sight of its interest in Christ and the glory to come; which being gained, joy is no more under the Souls command. I have with good assurance, this account of a Minister, who being alone in a Journey, and willing to make the best improvement he could of that days Solitude; set himself to a close Examination of the state of his Soul; and then of the life to come, and the manner of its being and living in Heaven, in the views of all those things which are now pure Objects of Faith, and Hope. After a while, he perceived his thoughts begin to fix, and come closer to these great and astonishing things, than was usual; and as his mind setled upon them, his affections began to rise with answerable liveliness and vigour.
He therefore (whilst he was yet Master of his own thoughts) lifted up his heart to God in a short Ejaculation, that God would so order it in his Providence, that he might meet with no interruption from Company, or any other Accident in that Journey, which was granted him: for in all that days journey, he neither met, overtook, or was overtaken by any. Thus going on his way, his thoughts ⟨p. 239⟩