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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.
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⟩Throne, from a Gibbet or Stake to their Fathers house, from insulting Enemies to their triumphant Brethren, the Palm-bearing Multitude. This is a rough, but honourable way to Glory. (2) Some lie long under the hand of death, before it dispatch them, it approaches them by slow and lingering paces, they feel every step of death distinctly as it comes on towards them: But others are favoured with a quick dispatch, a short passage from hence to Glory. Hezekiah feared a pining sickness, Isa. 38.10, 12. what he feared, many feel. O how many Days, yea Weeks and Months, have many gracious Souls dwelt upon the brink of the Pit, crying, How long Lord, how long! (3) The pains and throes of death are more acute and sharp to some of Gods people, than to others: Death is bitter in the most mild and gentle form of it. Two such dear and intimate Friends as the Soul and Body are, cannot part without some tears, groans, or sighs; and those more deep and emphatical than the groans and sighs of the living use to be: But yet (comparatively speaking) the death of one may be styled sweet and easy to another's. Latimer and Ridley found it so, though burnt in the same flame.
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 bosome of Jesus Christ: But others swim through the Red Sea to Canaan, from a Scaffold to the ⟨p. 248⟩Throne, from a Gibbet or Stake to their Fathers house, from insulting Enemies to their triumphant Brethren, the Palmbearing Multitude. This is a rough, but honourable way to Glory. (2) Some lie long under the hand of death, before it dispatch them, it approaches them by slow and lingering paces, they feel every step of death distinctly as it comes on towards them: But others are favoured with a quick dispatch, a short passage from hence to Glory. Hezekiah feared a pineing sickness,