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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.
They are about our death-beds, waiting to receive their precious charge into their arms and bosoms. When Lazarus breathed out his Soul, the Text saith, it was carried by Angels into Abraham's bosom, Luke 10.22. And upon this account, Tertullian calls them Evocatores animarum, the Callers forth of Souls. At the Translation of Elijah, they appeared in the form of Horses and Chariots of fire, 2 Kings 2. 11. Horses and Chariots are not only designed for conveyance, but for conveyance in State; and truly it is no small ⟨image 118⟩honour to have such a noble Convoy and Guard to attend our Souls to Heaven.
They are about our death-beds, waiting to receive their precious charge into their arms and bosomes. When Lazarus breathed out his Soul, the Text saith, it was carried by Angels into Abraham's bosome, Luke 10.22. And upon this account, Tertullian calls them Evocatores animarum, the Callers forth of Souls. At the Translation of Elijah, they appeared in the form of Horses and Chariots of fire, 2 Kings 2. 11. Horses and Chariots are not only design'd for conveyance, but for conveyance in State; and truly it is no small ⟨image 118⟩honour to have such a noble Convoy and Guard to attend our Souls to Heaven.
If it be demanded, 1What need is there of their help or company? Cannot God by his immediate hand and power gather home the Souls of his people to himself at death? He inspired them into our Bodies without their help, and can receive them again when we expire them, without their aid.