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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 V.
There are many Scriptures which very much favour, if they do not positively conclude the Souls inclination to and desire to be re-united with its own body, even whilst it is in the state of its single glorification in Heaven; certainly our Souls leave not our Bodies at death, as the Ostrich doth her Egg in the sand, without any farther regard to it, or concernment for it, but they are represented, as crying to God to remember, ave••• and vindicate them, Rev. 6.1•, 11. How long, Lord, how long wilt thou not avenge our blood? our blood, speaks both the continued Relation, and suitable affection they have to their absent Bodies.
THere are many Scriptures which very much favour, if they do not positively conclude the Souls inclination to and desire to be re-united with its own body, even whilst it is in the state of its single glorification in Heaven; certainly our Souls leave not our Bodies at death, as the Ostrich doth her Egg in the sand, without any farther regard to it, or concernment for it, but they are represented, as crying to God to remember, ave••• and vindicate them, Rev. 6.1•, 11. How long, Lord, how long wilt thou not avenge our blood? our blood, speaks both the continued Relation, and suitable affection they have to their absent Bodies.