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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.
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, Iob 19.25.26. With these eyes shall I see God.
4. The unbodied Soul shall not find the want of its Body, so as to afflict or disquiet it, nor the Body the want of its Soul; but the one shall be at rest in Heaven, and the other sweet asleep in the Grave, and all that long interval shall slide away, without any afflicting sense of each others absence. The time will be long, Job 14.12. but if it were longer, it cannot be afflicting, considering how the Soul is clothed immediately 2 Cor. 5.1, 2. and how the Body sleeps sweetly in Jesus,