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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.
For (1) Christ died (O believer) for thy sins, Rom. 4.25. his death was an expiatory Sacrifice for all thy guilt, Gal. 3.13. so that thou shalt not die in thy sins: the pangs of death may, and must be on thy outward man, but the guilt of sin, and the Condemnation of God shall not be upon thy inner man.
(2) The death of Christ in thy room hath utterly destroyed the power of death, which once was in the hand of Satan. Heb. 2.14. Col. 2.14, 15. his power was not authoritative, but executive: Not as the power of a King but of a Sheriff; which is none at all when a Pardon is produced.
(3) Christ hath assured us, that his Victory over death shall be complete in our persons. It is already a complete personal Victory, in respect of himself, Rom. 6.9. he dieth no more, death hath no more Dominion over him. It's an incomplete Victory already as to our persons. It can dissolve the Union of our Souls and Bodies, but the Union betwixt Christ and our Souls it can never dissolve, Rom. 8.38, 39. and as for the power it still retains over our dust, that also shall be destroyed at the Resurrection, 1 Cor 15.25, 26. comp. with verses 54, 55, 56, 57. so that there is no cause for any Soul in Christ to tremble at the thoughts of a separation from the body, but rather to embrace it as a privilege, death is ours.