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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.
4. Another sort there are, who affirm, they neither wander about this World, nor go into Purgatory, but are cast by death into a Swoon or sleep; remaining in a kind of benumbed condition, till the Resurrection of the Body. This was the Error of Beryllus; and Irenaeus seems to border too near upon it, when he saith: ⟨p. 213⟩The Souls of Disciples shall go to an invisible place appointed for them of God,1 and shall there tarry till the Resurrection, waiting for that time, and the receiving their Bodies, and perfectly (i.e. corporally) rising again, as Christ did, they shall come to the sight of God.
4. Another sort there are, who affirm, they neither wander about this World, nor go into Purgatory, but are cast by death into a Swoon or sleep; remaining in a kind of benummed condition, till the Resurrection of the Body. This was the Errour of Beryllus; and Irenaeus seems to border too near upon it, when he saith: ⟨p. 213⟩The Souls of Disciples shall go to an invisible place appointed for them of God,1 and shall there tarry till the Resurrection, waiting for that time, and the receiving their Bodies, and perfectly (i.e. corporally) rising again, as Christ did, they shall come to the sight of God.
- 1Discipulorum Animae abibunt in invisibilem locum, definitam •is à Deo; & ibi usq•e ad Resurrectionem commorabuntar, sustinentes Resurrectionem: Post, recipients corpora, & perfectè resurgentes, (i. e.) corporaliter, quemadmodum & dominus resurrexit, sic venlent ad conspectum Dei. Iren. lib. 5.Discipulorum Animae abibunt in invisibilem locum, definitam •is à Deo; & ibi usq•e ad Resurrectionem commorabuntar, sustinentes Resurrectionem: Post, recipientes corpora, & perfectè resurgentes, (i. e.) corporaliter, quemadmodum & dominus resurrexit, sic venlent ad conspectum Dei. Iren. lib. 5.