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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.
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⟩began to swell and rise higher and higher, like the waters in Ezekiel's Vision, till at last, they became an overflowing flood. Such was the intention of his mind, such the ravishing tastes of heavenly Joys, and such the full assurance of his interest therein; that he utterly lost the sight and sense of this World, and all the concerns thereof, and for some hours knew no more where he was, than if he had been in a deep sleep upon his Bed. At last, he began to perceive himself very faint, and almost choked with blood, which running in abundance from his Nose, had discoloured his Clothes, and his Horse, from the Shoulder to the Hoof. He found himself almost spent, and nature to faint under the pressure of joy unspeakable, and unsupportable; and at last perceiving a Spring of water in his way, he with some difficulty, alighted to cleanse and cool his face and hands, which were drenched in Blood, Tears, and Sweat.
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⟩began to swell and rise higher and higher, like the waters in Ezekiel's Vision, till at last, they became an overflowing flood. Such was the intention of his mind, such the ravishing tastes of heavenly Joys, and such the full assurance of his interest therein; that he utterly lost the sight and sense of this World, and all the concerns thereof, and for some hours knew no more where he was, than if he had been in a deep sleep upon his Bed. At last, he began to perceive himself very faint, and almost choaked with blood, which running in abundance from his Nose, had discoloured his Cloaths, and his Horse, from the Shoulder to the Hoof. He found himself almost spent, and nature to faint under the pressure of joy unspeakable, and unsupportable; and at last perceiving a Spring of water in his way, he with some difficulty, alighted to cleanse and cool his face and hands, which were drenched in Blood, Tears, and Sweat.