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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.
DOCTRINE.
That the Souls of men perish not with their Bodies, but do certainly over-live them, and subsist in a state of separation from them. Matth. 10.28. Fear not them that kill the Body, but are not able to kill the Soul.
THat the Souls of men perish not with their Bodies, but do certainly over-live them, and subsist in a state of separation from them. Matth. 10.28. Fear not them that kill the Body, but are not able to kill the Soul.
The Bodies of these Martyrs of Jesus were destroyed by divers sorts of torments, but their Souls were out of the reach of all those cruel Engines. They were in safety under the Altar, and in glory, clothed with their white Robes, when the Bodies they lately inhabited on earth, were turned to ashes, and torn to pieces by wild Beasts.
The Bodies of these Martyrs of Jesus were destroyed by divers sorts of torments, but their Souls were out of the reach of all those cruel Engines. They were in safety under the Altar, and in glory, cloathed with their white Robes, when the Bodies they lately inhabited on earth, were turned to ashes, and torn to pieces by wild Beasts.