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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.
Objection 1.
The Soul can both live and act separate from the Body, it needs it not; and if it don't want, why should it desire it?
Solution.
The life and actings of the glorified are considerable two ways. (1) Singly and abstractly for the life and action of one part: and so we confess the Soul lives happily and acts forth its own powers freely in the state of separation. (2) Personally, or concretely, as it is the life and action of the whole man, and so it doth both need and desire the Conjunction or re-union of the Body: for the Body is not only a part of Christs purchase, as well as the Soul, and is to have its own glory as well as it: but it is also a constitutive part of a complete glorified person, and so considered, the Saints are not perfectly happy till this re-union be effected, which is the true ground and reason of this its desire.
The life and actings of the glorified are considerable two ways. (1) Singly and abstractly for the life and action of one part: and so we confess the Soul lives happily and acts forth its own powers freely in the state of separation. (2) Personally, or concretely, as it is the life and action of the whole man, and so it doth both need and desire the Conjunction or re-union of the Body: for the Body is not only a part of Christs purchace, as well as the Soul, and is to have its own glory as well as it: but it is also a constitutive part of a compleat glorified person, and so considered, the Saints are not perfectly happy till this re-union be effected, which is the true ground and reason of this its desire.