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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.
1. Some have had strong and irresistible impressions of their approaching change made upon their minds. So had Sir Anthony Wingfield who was slain at Brest, Anno 1594. At his undertaking of that expedition,1 he was strongly persuaded it would be his death; and therefore so settled and disposed of his Estate, as one that never reckoned to return again. And the day before he died, he took order for the payment of his debts, as one that strongly presaged the time was now at hand, which accordingly fell out the next day.
1. Some have had strong and irresistible impressions of their approaching change made upon their minds. So had Sir Anthony Wingfield who was slain at Brest, Anno 1594. At his undertaking of that expedition,1 he was strongly perswaded it would be his death; and therefore so setled and disposed of his Estate, as one that never reckoned to return again. And the day before he died, he took order for the payment of his debts, as one that strongly presaged the time was now at hand, which accordingly fell out the next day.
- 1Sir John Norris his Expedition, p. 46.Sir Iohn Norris his Expedition, p. 46.
Much of the same nature was that of the late Earl of Marlborough, who fell in the Holland War. He not only presaged his own fall in that Encounter, (which was exactly answered in the event) but left behind him that memorable and excellent Letter, which evidenced to all the World, what deep fixed apprehensions of Eternity it had left upon his Spirit. Many examples of this nature might be produced, of such as have in their perfect health foretold their own death; and others who have dropped such passages as were afterwards better understood by their sorrowful friends, than when they first dropped from their lips.