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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) They are called Spirits, that is, immaterial substances, strictly opposed to Bodies, which are no way the objects of our exterior Senses, neither visible to the eye, nor sensible to the touch, which were called properly Souls whilst they animated Bodies in this lower World; but now being loosed and separated from them by death, and existing alone in the World above, they are properly and strictly styled Spirits.
(1) They are called Spirits, that is, immaterial substances, strictly opposed to Bodies, which are no way the objects of our exteriour Senses, neither visible to the eye, nor sensible to the touch, which were called properly Souls whilst they animated Bodies in this lower World; but now being loosed and separated from them by death, and existing alone in the World above, they are properly and strictly stiled Spirits.
(3) They are the Spirits of just Men.] Man may be termed just two ways, (1) by a full discharge and acquittance from the guilt of all his sins, and so believers are just men even whilst they live on Earth groaning under other imperfections, Acts 13.39. or (2) by a total freedom from the pollution of any sin. And though in this sense there is not a just man upon Earth, that doth good, and sinneth not, ⟨p. 189⟩Eccles. 7.22. yet even in this sense Adam was just before the Fall, Eccles. 7.29. according to his original constitution, and all believers are so, in their glorified condition, all sin being perfectly purged out of them, and its existence utterly destroyed in them. On which account
(3) They are the Spirits of just Men.] Man may be termed just two ways, (1) by a full discharge and acquittance from the guilt of all his sins, and so believers are just men even whilst they live on Earth groaning under other imperfections,