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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.) The necessity of his death, it is not I may, but I must put off this my Tabernacle, yea, I must put it off shortly; for so the Lord had showed him: Christ had signified it expressly to him, John 21.18, 19. And besides this, most Expositors think this clause refers to some special vision or Revelation which Peter had of the time and manner of his own death: so that besides the natural necessity or the inevitableness of his death by the law of Nature; he was certified of it by special Revelation. We have here also
(2.) The necessity of his death, it is not I may, but I must put off this my Tabernacle, yea, I must put it off shortly; for so the Lord had shewed him: Christ had signified it expresly to him, Iohn 21.18, 19. And besides this, most Expositors think this clause refers to some special vision or Revelation which Peter had of the time and manner of his own death: so that besides the natural necessity or the inevitableness of his death by the law of Nature; he was certified of it by special Revelation. We have here also
(3.) The voluntariness of his death, for voluntariness is consistent enough with the necessity of the event.1 I must put off, or lay down my Tabernacle; he saith not, I must be torn or rent by violence from it, but I must depose, or lay it down. Camero will have the word here used for death, properly to signify the laying down of ones Garments: he made no more of putting off his Body than his Garments.
(3.) The voluntariness of his death, for voluntariness is consistent enough with the necessity of the event.1 I must put off, or lay down my Tabernacle; he saith not, I must be torn or rent by violence from it, but I must depose, or lay it down. Camero will have the word here used for death, properly to signifie the laying down of ones Garments: he made no more of putting off his Body than his Garments.