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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 VII.
Moreover, the account given us in Scripture of the return of several Souls into their own Bodies again after death, and real separation from them, shows us that the Soul subsists and lives in a separate state after death, and perisheth not by the stroke of death: for if it were annihilated or destroyed by death, the same Soul could never be restored again to the same Body. A dead Body may indeed be acted by an assisting form, which may move and carry it from place to place: So the Devil hath acted the dead Bodies of many; but they cannot be said to live again, by their own Souls, after a real separation by death, unless those Souls over-lived the Bodies they forsook at death, and had their abode in another Place and state. You have divers unquestionable examples of the Souls return into the Body recorded in Scripture. As that of the Sh•namites Son, 2 King. 4.18, 19, 20, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37. That of the Rulers daughter, Matth. 9.18, 23, 24, 25. That of the Widows Son, Luke 7.12, 13, 14, 15. and that of Lazarus, ⟨p. 109⟩John 11.39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45. These were no other but the very same Souls,1 their own Souls which returned into them again, which as Chrysostom well observes, is a great proof of their Immortality, against them that think the Soul is annihilated after the death of the Body.
MOreover, the account given us in Scripture of the return of several Souls into their own Bodies again after death, and real separation from them, shews us that the Soul subsists and lives in a separate state after death, and perisheth not by the stroke of death: for if it were annihilated or destroyed by death, the same Soul could never be restored again to the same Body. A dead Body may indeed be acted by an assisting form, which may move and carry it from place to place: So the Devil hath acted the dead Bodies of many; but they cannot be said to live again, by their own Souls, after a real separation by death, unless those Souls over-lived the Bodies they forsook at death, and had their abode in another Place and state. You have divers unquestionable examples of the Souls return into the Body recorded in Scripture. As that of the Shnamites Son,