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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. VI. That the separated Souls of the just, having finished all their work of obedience on earth, and the Spirit having finished all his work of Sanctification upon them, they do ascend to God, with all the habits of Grace inherent in them; and all the comfortable improvements of their Graces, accompanying and following them.
This Proposition is to be opened and confirmed in these four Branches.
THis Proposition is to be opened and confirmed in these four Branches.
(1) When a gracious Soul is separated from the Body, all its work of obedience in this World is finished. Therefore death is called the finishing of our course, Acts 20.24. the night when man works no more, John 9.4. There is no working in the grave, Eccles. 9.10. for death dissolves the Compositum, and removes the Soul immediately to another World; where it can act for it self only, but not for others, as it was wont to do on earth. I shall see man no more (saith Hezekiah) with the Inhabitants of the World, Isaiah 38.11. that which was said of David's death, is as true of every Christian, that having served his Generation according to the Will of God, he fell asleep,