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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.
Now if these be no vain and delusory Promises, (as to be sure they are not, being the words of the true and faithful God) then those Souls to whom they are made, must live for ever; for if the subject of the Promises must fail, consequently the performance of the Promises must fail too. For how shall they be made good, when those to whom they are made, are perished?
Let it not be objected here, That the Bodies of Believers are concerned in the promises, as well as their Souls, and yet their Bodies perish, notwithstanding.
For we say, though their Bodies dye, yet they shall live again, and enjoy the fruit of the Promises in eternal Glory: And whilst their Bodies lie in the Grave, their Souls are with God, enjoying the covenanted Blessedness in Heaven, Rom. 8.10, 11. and so the Covenant-Bond is not loosed betwixt them and God, by Death, which it must needs be, in case the Soul perished when the Body doth. And upon this Hypothesis that Argument of Christ is built, Matth. 22.32. proving the Resurrection from the Covenant God made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. God is not the God of the Dead, but of the Living. q. d. If Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, be perished in Soul as well as in Body, how then is God their God? what is become of the Promise and Covenant-Relation? for if one Correlate fail, the Relation necessarily fails with it. If God be their God, then certainly they are in being; for God is not the God of the Dead, (i.e.) of those that are utterly perished. Therefore it must needs be, that though their Bodies be naturally dead, yet their Souls still live; and their Bodies must live again at the Resurrection, by virtue of the same Promise.