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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
USE. › Inference 2: A Separate Soul immediately capable of Blessedness. Inference II.
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A Separate Soul immediately capable of Blessedness. Inference II.
The Soul of Man being a Substance, and not depending in its Being on the Body, or any other fellow creature; There can be no reason on the Souls account, why its blessedness should be delayed till the Resurrection of the Body.
THe Soul of Man being a Substance, and not depending in its Being on the Body, or any other fellow creature; There can be no reason on the Souls account, why its blessedness should be delayed till the Resurrection of the Body.
'Tis a great mistake. (and 'tis well 'tis so) that the Soul is capable only of social Glory, or a Blessedness in partnership with the Body: And that it can neither exert its own powers, nor enjoy its own happiness in the absence of the body. The opinion of a sleeping interval took its ri•e from this error, (as it is usual for one mistake to beget another) they conceived the Soul to be so dependent upon the Body, at least in all its operations, that when death rends it from the Body, it must needs be left as in a swoon, or sleep; unable to exert its proper powers, or enjoy that felicity, which we ascribe to it in its state of separation.
'Tis a great mistake. (and 'tis well 'tis so) that the Soul is capable only of social Glory, or a Blessedness in partnership with the Body: And that it can neither exert its own powers, nor enjoy its own happiness in the absence of the body. The opinion of a sleeping interval took its rie from this errour, (as it is usual for one mistake to beget another) they conceived the Soul to be so dependent upon the Body, at least in all its operations, that when death rends it from the Body, it must needs be left as in a swoon, or sleep; unable to exert its proper powers, or enjoy that felicity, which we ascribe to it in its state of separation.