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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.
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;1 yet still retained a love and inclination to them, even in the state of Separation, and are therefore here brought in complaining of their shedding of their blood, and destruction of their Bodies.
Souls in this place are not put for the Bloud, 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;1 yet still retained a love and inclination to them, even in the state of Separation, and are therefore here brought in complaining of their shedding of their blood, and destruction of their Bodies.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew]. Anima proimmortali Spirit• hominis capitu•, sicuti Matt. 10.28. ho• sensu dicit hîc Johannes see vidisse animas, &c. Marlorat in loc.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Anima proimmortali Spirit hominis capitu, sicuti