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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. III. The Separation of the Soul and Body makes a great and wonderful change upon both, but especially upon the Soul.
There is a twofold change made upon man by death; one upon his Body, another upon his Soul. The change upon the Body is great, and visible to every eye. A living Body is changed into a dead carcass. A beautiful and comely Body, into a loathsome spectacle: that which lately was the object of delight and love, is hereby made an abhorrence to all flesh, Bury my dead out of my sight, Gen. 23.4.
THere is a twofold change made upon man by death; one upon his Body, another upon his Soul. The change upon the Body is great, and visible to every eye. A living Body is changed into a dead carcase. A beautiful and comely Body, into a loathsome spectacle: that which lately was the object of delight and love, is hereby made an abhorrence to all flesh, Bury my dead out of my sight, Gen. 23.4.
What the Sun is to the greater, that the Soul is to the lesser World. When the Sun shines comfortably, how vegete and cheerful do all things look! How well do they thrive and prosper! The Birds sing merrily, the Beasts play wantonly, the whole Creation enjoyeth a day of light and joy: but when it departs, what a night of horror followeth? How are all things wrapped up in the sable Mantle of darkness! Or if it but abate its heat, as in Winter; the Creatures are as it were buried in the winding-sheet of Winters frost and Snow: just so it is with the Body when the Soul shineth pleasantly upon it, or departs from it.
What the Sun is to the greater, that the Soul is to the lesser World. When the Sun shines comfortably, how vegete and chearful do all things look! How well do they thrive and prosper! The Birds sing merrily, the Beasts play wantonly, the whole Creation enjoyeth a day of light and joy: but when it departs, what a night of horror followeth? How are all things wrapt up in the sable Mantle of darkness! Or if it but abate its heat, as in Winter; the Creatures are as it were buried in the winding-sheet of Winters frost and Snow: just so it is with the Body when the Soul shineth pleasantly upon it, or departs from it.