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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.
In respect of the Body which the Soul now forsakes, it is called the putting off this Tabernacle, 2 Pet. 1.14. And the dissolving the earthly House or Tabernacle, 2 Cor. 5.1.
In respect of the terminus à quo, the place from which the Soul removes at death, it is called our departure hence, Phil. 1.23. or our weighing Anchor and loosing from this coast or shore to sail to another.
In respect of the terminus à quo, the place from which the Soul removes at death, it is called our departure hence, Phil. 1.23. or our weighing Anchor and loosing from this coast or shoar to sail to another.
In respect of the terminus ad quem, the place to which the Spirits of the just go at death, it is called our going to, or being with the Lord, ibid. To conclude, in respect of that which doth most lively resemble and shadow it forth, it is called our falling asleep, Acts 7. ult. our sleeping in Jesus, 1 Thes. 4.14. This Metaphor of sleep, must be stretched no further than the Spirit of God designed in the choice of it, which was not to favour and countenance the fancy of a sleeping Soul after death; but to represent its state of placid rest in Jesus's bosom, if it refer at all to the Soul: for I think it most properly respects the Body;