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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.
By that Spring he sate down, and washed; earnestly desiring if it were the pleasure of God, that might be his parting place from this World: He said, Death had the most amiable face in his eye, that ever he beheld, except the face of Jesus Christ, which made it so; and that he could not remember (though he believed he should die there) that he had one thought of his dear Wi•e, or Children, or any other earthly Concernment.
By that Spring he sate down, and washed; earnestly desiring if it were the pleasure of God, that might be his parting place from this World: He said, Death had the most aimable face in his eye, that ever he beheld, except the face of Jesus Christ, which made it so; and that he could not remember (though he believed he should die there) that he had one thought of his dear Wi•e, or Children, or any other earthly Concernment.
But having drank of that Spring, his Spirits revived, the Blood stenched, and he mounted his Horse again, and on he went in the same frame of Spirit, till he had finished a Journey of near thirty Miles, and came at Night to his Inn. Where being come, he greatly admired how he came thither; that his Horse, without his direction, had brought him thither, and that he fell not all that day, which past not without several Trances of considerable continuance.
Being alighted, the Inn-keeper came to him, with some astonishment, (being acquainted with him formerly) O Sir, said he, what is the matter with you? You look like a dead man. Friend, replied he, I was never better in my life. Show me my Chamber, cause my Cloak to be cleansed, burn me a little Wine, and that is all I desire of ⟨p. 240⟩