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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.
PROP. II. Actual Separation may be considered either in fieri, in the previous Pangs and foregoing Agonies of it; or in facto esse, in the last separating stroke which actually parts the Soul and Body asunder, lays the Body prostrate and dead at the feet of Death, and thrusts the Soul quite out of its ancient and beloved habitation.
1. LET it be considered in the previous pangs and fore-running Agonies which commonly make way for this actual Dissolution: And to the people of God, this is the worst and bitterest part of death, (except those conflicts with Satan which they sometimes grapple with on a death-bed,) which they encounter at that time. There is (saith one) no poniard in death it self, like those in the way or Prologue to it. I like not to dye, said another, but I care not if I were dead; the end is better than the way. The conflicts and struggles of Nature with death are bitter and sharp, pains unknown to men before, whatever pains they have endured: Nor can it be expected to be otherwise, seeing the ties and engagements betwixt the Soul and Body are so strong, as we showed before.
1. LET it be considered in the previous pangs and fore-running Agonies which commonly make way for this actual Dissolution: And to the people of God, this is the worst and bitterest part of death, (except those conflicts with Satan which they sometimes grapple with on a death-bed,) which they encounter at that time. There is (saith one) no ponyard in death it self, like those in the way or Prologue to it. I like not to dye, said another, but I care not if I were dead; the end is better than the way. The conflicts and struggles of Nature with death are bitter and sharp, pains unknown to men before, whatever pains they have endured: Nor can it be expected to be otherwise, seeing the tyes and ingagements betwixt the Soul and Body are so strong, as we shew'd before.