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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.) As it derives its Being from the Father of Spirits in a peculiar way, and rejoiceth in its spiritual properties; so at death it returns to that great Spirit, from whence it came. It is not annihilated or resolved into soft Air, or sucked up again by the Element of Fire, or catched back again into the soul of the World, as some have dreamed; ⟨p. 17⟩but it returns to God who gave it, to give an account of it self to him, and receive its Judgment from him. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was, and the Spirit shall return to God who gave it, Eccles. 12.7. Each part of Man to its like, dust to dust, and spirit to spirit. Not that the Soul is resolved into God, as the Body is into Earth: but as God created it a rational Spirit, conscious to it self of moral good and evil; so when it hath finished its time in the body, it must appear before the God of the Spirits of all flesh, its Arbiter and final Judge.
(3.) As it derives its Being from the Father of Spirits in a peculiar way, and rejoyceth in its spiritual properties; so at death it returns to that great Spirit, from whence it came. It is not annihilated or resolved into soft Air, or suckt up again by the Element of Fire, or catcht back again into the soul of the World, as some have dreamed; ⟨p. 17⟩but it returns to God who gave it, to give an account of it self to him, and receive its Judgment from him. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was, and the Spirit shall return to God who gave it, Eccles. 12.7. Each part of Man to its like, dust to dust, and spirit to spirit. Not that the Soul is resolved into God, as the Body is into Earth: but as God created it a rational Spirit, conscious to it self of moral good and evil; so when it hath finisht its time in the body, it must appear before the God of the Spirits of all flesh, its Arbiter and final Judge.