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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.
1. Though they part with them, yet they part in hopes of receiving them again, 1 Thessal. 4.13, 14. They take not a final leave of them when they die. Husbandmen cast their Seed-corn into the earth cheerfully and willingly, because they part with it in hope; so should we; when we commit our Bodies to the earth at death.
1. Though they part with them, yet they part in hopes of receiving them again, 1 Thessal. 4.13, 14. They take not a final leave of them when they die. Husbandmen cast their Seed-corn into the earth chearfully and willingly, because they part with it in hope; so should we; when we commit our Bodies to the earth at death.
2. Though death separate these dear Friends from each other; yet it cannot separate either the one or other from Christ, Luke 20.37, 38. I am the God of Abraham, &c. Your very dust is the Lords, and the Grave rots not the Bond of the Covenant.
3. The very same Body we lay down at death, we shall assume again at the Resurrection. Not only the same specific, but the same Numerical Body, Job 19.25.26. With these eyes shall I see God.
3. The very same Body we lay down at death, we shall assume again at the Resurrection. Not only the same specifical, but the same Numerical Body,