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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.
Argument II.
Though death hath dissolved the Union, yet it hath not destroyed the relation betwixt the Soul and Body; that dust is more to it than all the dust of the whole earth. Hence it is that the whole person of a Believer is sometimes denominated from that part of him, namely his Body which remains captivated by death in the grave. Hence 2 Thes. 4.15. dead believers are called those that sleep, which must needs properly respect the Body, for the Soul sleeps not; and shows what a firm and dear relation still remains betwixt these absent Friends. Now we all know the mighty power of relation, if it be least among entities, yet surely it is one of the greatest things in the World in efficacy.
THough death hath dissolv'd the Union, yet it hath not destroyed the relation betwixt the Soul and Body; that dust is more to it than all the dust of the whole earth. Hence it is that the whole person of a Believer is sometimes denominated from that part of him, namely his Body which remains captivated by death in the grave. Hence 2 Thes. 4.15. dead believers are called those that sleep, which must needs properly respect the Body, for the Soul sleeps not; and shews what a firm and dear relation still remains betwixt these absent Friends. Now we all know the mighty power of relation, if it be least among entities, yet surely it is one of the greatest things in the World in efficacy.
It is difficult to bear the absence of our dear Relatives, especially if we be in prosperity, and they in adversity. As the case here is betwixt the Spirit in Heaven, and it's Body in the Grave: This associated with Angels, that preyed upon by Worms. Joseph's case is the liveliest Emblem that occurs to my present thoughts to illustrate the point in hand. He was advanced to be Lord over all Egypt, living in the greatest pomp and splendour there;