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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. Secondly, There is no difference betwixt the departing Souls of just men, in respect of the supporting presence of God with them in that their hour of distress; that Promise belongs to them all, Psal. 91.15. I will be with him in trouble, and so doth that, Heb. 13.5. I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. Their God is certainly with them all, to order the Circumstances of their death, and all the Occurrences of that day, to his glory, and their good. Supports I have (said a good man in such an hour) though Suavities I want; and so they have also who meet with the hardest tug at death.
But notwithstanding their equality in these Privileges, there is a great difference betwixt the departing Souls of just men. And this difference is manifest both in the I. External Circumstances of their death. II. Internal Circumstances of their death.
But notwithstanding their equality in these Priviledges, there is a great difference betwixt the departing Souls of just men. And this difference is manifest both in the I. External Circumstances of their death. II. Internal Circumstances of their death.
I. In the External Circumstances of their death, all have not one and the same passage to Heaven in all respects; for (1) First some go thither by the ordinary road of a natural death from their Beds, and the arms of lamenting friends, to the arms and bosom of Jesus Christ: But others swim through the Red Sea to Canaan, from a Scaffold to the ⟨p. 248⟩