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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.
Thus it is with the Body when death hath dislodged the Soul. Worms nestle in the holes where the beautiful eyes were once placed. Corruption and desolation is upon all parts of that stately structure. But this being a vulgar Theme, I shall leave the Body to the dust from whence it came, and follow the Soul▪ which is my proper subject, pointing at the changes which are made on it.
Thus it is with the Body when death hath dislodged the Soul. Worms nestle in the holes where the beautiful eyes were once placed. Corruption and desolation is upon all parts of that stately structure. But this being a vulgar Theam, I shall leave the Body to the dust from whence it came, and follow the Soul▪ which is my proper subject, pointing at the changes which are made on it.
The essence of the Soul is not destroyed or changed by the Bodies ruin: It is substantially the self same Soul that it was when in the Body. The supposition of an essential change, would disorder the whole frame and model of Gods eternal design for the Redemption and glorification of it, Rom. 8.29, 30. but yet though it undergo no substantial change at death, yet divers great and remarkable alterations are made upon it by sundering it from the Body. As 1. It is not where it was. It was in a Body, immersed in matter, married unto flesh and blood; but now it is out of the Body, unclothed, and stripped naked out of its garments of flesh, like pure Gold melted out of the ore with which it was commixed; or as a Birdlet out of her Cage, into the open Fields and Woods. This makes a great and wonderful change upon it. 2. Being free from the Body, it is consequently discharged and freed from all those •ares, studies, fears and sorrows to which it was here enthralled and subjected upon the Bodies account. It puts off all those passions and burdens with it, never spends one thought more about Food, and Raiment, Health and Sickness, Wives, and Children, Riches or Poverty: but lives henceforth after the manner of Angels,