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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.
4. The Soul manifesteth its Love to the Body by its Fears of Death, and extreme Aversation to a Separation from it. On this account Death is called, in Job 18.14. the King of Terrors, or the Black Prince, or the Prince of Clouds and Darkness, as some translate that place; we read it, the King of Terrors, meaning, that the Terrors at Death are such Terrors, as subdue and keep down all other Terrors under them, as a Prince doth his Subjects. Other Terrors compared with those that the Soul conceives and conflicts with at parting, are no more than a cut Finger, to the laying ones Head on the Block: O the Soul and Body are strongly twisted and knit together in dear Bands of intimate Union and Affection, and these Bands cannot be broken without much struggling: Oh, 'tis a hard thing for the Soul to bid the Body farewell, 'tis a bitter parting, a doleful separation: Nothing is heard in that Hour, but the most deep and emphatical Groans; I say, emphatical Groans, the deep sense and meaning of which, the Living are but little acquainted with: for no Man Living hath yet felt the Sorrows of a parting pull; what ever other Sorrows he hath felt in the Body, yet they must be supposed to be far short of these.
4. The Soul manifesteth its Love to the Body by its Fears of Death, and extream Aversation to a Separation from it. On this account Death is called, in Iob 18.14. the King of Terrors, or the Black Prince, or the Prince of Clouds and Darkness, as some translate that place; we read it, the King of Terrors, meaning, that the Terrors at Death are such Terrors, as subdue and keep down all other Terrors under them, as a Prince doth his Subjects. Other Terrors compared with those that the Soul conceives and conflicts with at parting, are no more than a cut Finger, to the laying ones Head on the Block: O the Soul and Body are strongly twisted and knit together in dear Bands of intimate Union and Affection, and these Bands cannot be broken without much strugling: Oh, 'tis a hard thing for the Soul to bid the Body farewel, 'tis a bitter parting, a doleful separation: Nothing is heard in that Hour, but the most deep and emphatical Groans; I say, emphatical Groans, the deep sense and meaning of which, the Living are but little acquainted with: for no Man Living hath yet felt the Sorrows of a parting pull; what ever other Sorrows he hath felt in the Body, yet they must be supposed to be far short of these.