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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.
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 1 Cor. 3.15. Matth. 5.25, 26. 1 Pet. 3.19. all which have been fully rescued out of their hands, and abundantly vindicated by our Divines, who have proved, God never kindled that fire to purify Souls, but the Pope to warm his own Kitchen.
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 1 Cor. 3.15. Matth. 5.25, 26. 1 Pet. 3.19. all which have been fully rescued out of their hands, and abundantly vindicated by our Divines, who have proved, God never kindled that fire to purifie Souls, but the Pope to warm his own Kitchin.
- 1Bell. lib. 2. de Purg. cap. 6.