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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. VIII. At the time a gracious Souls separation from the Body, it is instantly, and perfectly freed from sin, which till that time dwelt in it, from its beginning: But thenceforth shall do so no more.
Immediately upon their separation from the Body,1 they are Spirits made perfect, as my Text stiles them; and that Epithet perfect could never suit them, if there were any remaining root or habit of corruption in them.
IMmediately upon their separation from the Body,1 they are Spirits made perfect, as my Text stiles them; and that Epithet perfect could never suit them, if there were any remaining root or habit of corruption in them.
- 1Ideoque vocat conse•ratos, vel perfectos, quia carnis infirmitatibus non amplius sint obnoxii, depositâ ipsâ carne. Marl. in loc.
The time, yea, the set time is now come, to put an end to all the dolorous groans of gracious Souls upon the account of indwelling sin. What the Angel said to Joshua, Zech. 3.3, 4. The same doth God say of every upright Soul at the time of its separation, Take away the filthy Garments from him, and clothe him with change of raiments, and set a fair Mitre upon his head. Thus the Garments spotted with the flesh, are taken away with the Body of flesh, and the pure, unchangeable Robes of perfect holiness clothed upon the Soul, in which it appears, without fault before the Throne of God,