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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.
The fifth Seal is opened in my Text, 1under which the Lord Jesus represents to his servant John the state and condition of those precious Souls, which had been torn and separated from their Bodies, by the bloody hands of Tyrants, for his name sake, under all the former persecutions. The design whereof is, to support and encourage all that were to come after, in the same bloody path. I saw under the Altar, &c. in which we have an account, I. Of what John saw. II. Of what he heard.
The fifth Seal is opened in my Text, 1under which the Lord Jesus represents to his servant Iohn the state and condition of those precious Souls, which had been torn and separated from their Bodies, by the bloudy hands of Tyrants, for his name sake, under all the former persecutions. The design whereof is, to support and encourage all that were to come after, in the same bloudy path. I saw under the Altar, &c. in which we have an account, I. Of what Iohn saw. II. Of what he heard.
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I. First we have an account of what he saw, I saw the Souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held.
Souls in this place are not put for the Blood, or the dead Carcasses of the Saints, who were slain, as some have groundlessly imagined; but are to be understood properly and strictly, for those Spiritual and immortal substances, which once had a vital Union with their Bodies, but were now separated from them by a violent death;