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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 IV.
AND as the dolorous parting hour evidenceth it, so doth the joy with which it receives it again at the Resurrection. If it part from it so heavily, and meet it again with joy unspeakable; sure then it still retained much love for it, and desires to be re-espoused to it, in the interval. Now, that its meeting in the Resurrection is a day of joy to the Soul, is evident, because it is called the time of refreshment, Acts 3.19. And they awake with singing out of the dust, Isai. 26.19. If the direct and immediate scope of the Prophet point not (as some think it doth) at the Resurrection, yet it is allowed by all to be a very lively allusion to it; which is sufficient for my purpose. And indeed none that understands and believes the design and business of that day, can possibly doubt but there was reason enough to call it a time of refreshment, a singing morning; for the Souls of the righteous come from Heaven with Christ, and the whole host of shouting Angels; not to be spectators only, but the subjects of that days triumph. They come to re-assume, and be re-espoused to their own Bodies, this being the appointed time for God to vindicate and rescue them from the tyrannical power of the Grave, to endow them with spiritual qualities at their second marriage to their Souls, that in both parts they may be completely happy. O the joyful claspings and dear embraces betwixt them, who but themselves can understand! And by the way, this removes the objection forementioned, of the miseries and prejudices the Soul suffered in this world in and from the Body. For now it receives it a spiritual Body, (i.e.) so subdued to and fitted for the use of the Spirit, as never to impede, clog, or obstruct its motions and inclinations any more,