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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.
5. It's desire of Re-union continuing still with it, in its state of Separation speaks its Love to the Body. As the Soul parted with it in Grief and Sorrow, so it still retains even in Glory an inclination to Re-union, and waits for a Day of Re-espousals: and to that sense, some searching and judicious Men understand those words of Job, Job 14.14. If a Man die, shall he live again, viz. by a Resurrection? if so, then all the Days of my appointed Separation, my Soul in Heaven shall wait till that Change come. And to the same sense is that Cry of Separated Souls, Rev. 6.9, 10, 11. How long, O Lord, how long, (i.e.) to the Consummation of all things, when Judgment shall be executed on them that killed our Bodies, and our Bodies so long absent, restored to us again. In that Day of Resurrection, the Souls of the Saints come willingly from Heaven it self, to repossess their Bodies, and bring them to a Partnership with them in their Glory; for it is with the Soul in Heaven, as it is with an Husband who is richly entertained, ⟨p. 141⟩feasted, and lodged abroad, but his dear Wife is solitary and comfortless: it abates the completeness of his joy. Therefore we say, the Saints joy is not consummate till that day.
5. It's desire of Re-union continuing still with it, in its state of Separation speaks its Love to the Body. As the Soul parted with it in Grief and Sorrow, so it still retains even in Glory an inclination to Re-union, and waits for a Day of Re-espousals: and to that sense, some searching and judicious Men understand those words of Iob, Iob 14.14. If a Man die, shall he live again, viz. by a Resurrection? if so, then all the Days of my appointed Separation, my Soul in Heaven shall wait till that Change come. And to the same sense is that Cry of Separated Souls, Rev. 6.9, 10, 11. How long, O Lord, how long, (i.e.) to the Consummation of all things, when Judgment shall be executed on them that killed our Bodies, and our Bodies so long absent, restored to us again. In that Day of Resurrection, the Souls of the Saints come willingly from Heaven it self, to repossess their Bodies, and bring them to a Partnership with them in their Glory; for it is with the Soul in Heaven, as it is with an Husband who is richly entertained,