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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.
2. Others think when they are loosed from the Body at death, they hover about the Graves and solitary places where their Bodies lie, as willing, seeing they can dwell no longer in them, to abide as near them as they can; just as the surviving Turtle, keeps near the place where his Mate died, and may be heard mourning for a long time about that part of the Wood. This opinion seeks countenance and protection from that law, Deut. 18.10, 11. which prohibits men to consult with the dead; of which restraint there had been no need nor use, if it had not been practised; and such practices had never been continued, if departed Souls had not frequented those places, and given answers to their Questions. But what I said before of Satan's Impostures, is enough for present, to return to this also.
2. Others think when they are loosed from the Body at death, they hover about the Graves and solitary places where their Bodies lie, as willing, seeing they can dwell no longer in them, to abide as near them as they can; just as the surviving Turtle, keeps near the place where his Mate died, and may be heard mourning for a long time about that part of the Wood. This opinion seeks countenance and protection from that law, Deut. 18.10, 11. which prohibits men to consult with the dead; of which restraint there had been no need nor use, if it had not been practised; and such practices had never been continued, if departed Souls had not frequented those places, and given answers to their Questions. But what I said before of Satans Impostures, is enough for present, to return to this also.
13. The Papists send them immediately to Purgatory in order to their more thorough Purification. This Purgatory, Bellarmin thus describes: It is a certain place wherein, as in a Prison, Souls are purged after this life, that were not fully purged here, to the intent they may enter pure into Heaven; and though the Church (saith he) hath not defined the place, yet the School-men say, it is in the Bowels of the Earth, and upon the borders of Hell. And to countenance this profitable Fable, divers Scriptures are by them abused and misapplied, as