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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.
The Union of Soul and Body is natural, their Separation is not so: many benefits will redound to both by re-union, and the Resurrection of the Body is provided by God, as the grand relief against those prejudices and losses, the Bodies of the Saints sustain by Separation. I say not that the propension or inclination of the Soul to re-union with its Body, is accompanied with any perturbation, or anxiety in its state of Separation, for it enjoys God, and in him a placid rest; and as the Body, so the Soul rests in hope: 'tis such a hope as disturbs not the rest of either: yet when the time is come for the Soul to be re-espoused, it is highly gratified by that second Marriage, glad it is to see its old dear companion, as two Friends after a long Separation. And so much of the evidence of the Souls love to the Body.
II. Next we are to enquire into the Grounds and Reasons of its love and inclination to the Body. And,
1. First the fundamental Ground and Reason thereof will be found in their natural Union with each other. There my Text lays it: No man ever yet hated his [own] flesh. Mark, the Body is the Souls own;1 they are strictly married and related to each other: the Soul hath a propriety in its Body, these two make up, or constitute one Person: true, they are not essentially one, they have far different Natures, but they are personally one, and though the Soul be what it was, after its Separation, yet to make a Man, the who he was, (i e) the same complete and perfect Person, they must be re-united: hence springs its love to the Body. Every man loves his own, John 17.19. All the World is in love with its own, and hence it cares to provide for its welfare, 1 Tim 5.8 If any man provide not for his own, he is worse than an Infidel For nature teacheth all men to do so Why are Children dearer to the Parents than to all others, but because