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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.
The same Mr. Knox in the year 1566. being in the Pulpit at Edinburgh, upon the Lords day, a paper was given up to him among many others, wherein these words were scoffingly written concerning the Earl of Murray, who was slain the day before, Take up the man, whom ye accounted another God. At the end of the Sermon, Mr. Knox bewailed the loss that the Church and state had by the death of that virtuous man, and then added, There is one in this company that makes this horrible murder, the subject of his mirth, ⟨p. 254⟩for which all good men should be sorry; but I tell him he shall dye where there shall be none to lament him. The man that wrote the Paper, was one Thomas Metellan, a young Gentleman, who shortly after in his Travels, died in Italy, having none to assist, or lament him.
The same Mr. Knox in the year 1566. being in the Pulpit at Edenburgh, upon the Lords day, a paper was given up to him among many others, wherein these words were scoffingly written concerning the Earl of Murray, who was slain the day before, Take up the man, whom ye accounted another God. At the end of the Sermon, Mr. Knox bewailed the loss that the Church and state had by the death of that vertuous man, and then added, There is one in this company that makes this horrible murther, the subject of his mirth, ⟨p. 254⟩for which all good men should be sorry; but I tell him he shall dye where there shall be none to lament him. The man that wrote the Paper, was one Thomas Metellan, a young Gentleman, who shortly after in his Travels, died in Italy, having none to assist, or lament him.
III. And others have had premonitions and signs of their own deaths, which accordingly fell out. And these premonitions have been given them, sometimes by strong irresistible impressions upon their minds, sometimes in dreams, and sometimes by unusual elevations of their Spirits in duties of Communion with God.