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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
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Argument III.
THE regret, reluctancy, and sorrows expressed by the Soul at parting, do strongly argue its inclination to a re-union with it, when it is actually separated from it. For why should we surmise that the Soul which mourned and groaned so deeply at parting; which clasped and embraced it so dearly and affectionately; which fought, struggled and disputed the passage with death every foot and inch of ground it got; and would not part with the Body till by plain force it was rent out of its arms: should not when absent, desire to see and enjoy its old and endeared friend again? Hath it lost its affection, though it continue its relation? that's very improbable. Or doth its advancement in Heaven make it regardless of its Body which lies in contempt and misery? that's an effect which Christs personal glory never produced in him towards us, nor a good mans preferment would produce in him to his poor and miserable friends in this World, as we see in the case of Joseph but now instanced in. It is therefore harsh and incongruous to suppose the Souls love to the Body was extinguished in the parting hour, and that now, out of sight, out of mind.
THE regret, reluctancy, and sorrows expressed by the Soul at parting, do strongly argue its inclination to a re-union with it, when it is actually separated from it. For why should we surmise that the Soul which mourn'd and groan'd so deeply at parting; which clasp'd and embraced it so dearly and affectionately; which fought, strugled and disputed the passage with death every foot and inch of ground it got; and would not part with the Body till by plain force it was rent out of its arms: should not when absent, desire to see and enjoy its old and endeared friend again? Hath it lost its affection, though it continue its relation? thats very improbable. Or doth its advancement in Heaven make it regardless of its Body which lies in contempt and misery? that's an effect which Christs personal glory never produced in him towards us, nor a good mans perferment would produce in him to his poor and miserable friends in this World, as we see in the case of Ioseph but now instanced in. It is therefore harsh and incongruous to suppose the Souls love to the Body was extinguished in the parting hour, and that now, out of sight, out of mind.