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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.
Argument IV.
THE Immortality of the Soul may be evinced from the everlasting habits which are subjected and inherent in it. If these habits abide for ever, certainly so must the Souls in which they are planted.
The Souls of good Men are the good Ground, in which the Seed of Grace is sown by the Spirit, Matth. 13.23. (i.e) the subjects in which gracious properties and affections do inhere and dwell, (which is the formal notion of a Substance) and these implanted Graces are everlasting things. So, John 4.14. It shall be in him a Well of Water, springing up into everlasting Life, (i. e.) the Graces of the Spirit shall be in Believers permanent habits, fixed Principles, which shall never decay. And therefore that Seed of Grace which is cast into their Souls at their Regeneration, is in 1 Pet. 1.23. called incorruptible Seed, which liveth and abideth for ever: and it is incorruptible, not only considered abstractly, in its own simple nature, but concretely, as it is in the sanctified Soul, its Subject; for it is said, 1 John 3.9. The Seed of God remaineth in him. It abideth for ever in the Soul. If then these two things be clear to us, viz. 1. That the Habits of Grace be everlasting. 2. That they are inseparable from sanctified Souls;