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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.
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.
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True,1 he can do so; but it hath pleased him to appoint this method of our Translation, not out of mere necessity, but bounty. Souls ascend not to God in the virtue of the Angels wings or arms, but of Christ's Ascension. Had not he ascended as our head and representative, all the Angels in Heaven could not have brought our Souls thither. He ascended by his own power, and we ascend by the virtue of his Ascension. 'Tis therefore rather for the State and Decorum, than any absolute necessity that they attend us, in our Ascension.
True,1 he can do so; but it hath pleased him to appoint this method of our Translation, not out of meer necessity, but bounty. Souls ascend not to God in the vertue of the Angels wings or arms, but of Christ's Ascension. Had not he ascended as our head and representative, all the Angels in Heaven could not have brought our Souls thither. He ascended by his own power, and we ascend by the virtue of his Ascension. 'Tis therefore rather for the State and Decorum, than any absolute necessity that they attend us, in our Ascension.
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