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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.
(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.
(3) Christ hath assured us, that his Victory over death shall be compleat in our persons. It is already a compleat personal Victory, in respect of himself, Rom. 6.9. he dieth no more, death hath no more Dominion over him. It's an incompleat 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 priviledge, death is ours.
O that these arguments might prevail! O that they might at last win the consent of our hearts to go along with death, which is the Messenger sent by God to bring us home to our Fathers house.