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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.
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, Rev. 14.5.
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 Ioshua, 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 cloath him with change of rayments, and set a fair Miter 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 cloathed upon the Soul, in which it appears, without fault before the Throne of God, Rev. 14.5.
There is a threefold burdensome evil in sin, under which all regenerated souls groan in this life, viz. (1) The Guilt, (2) The Filth, (3) The Inherence of it in their nature. And there is a threefold Remedy or cure of these evils. The guilt of sin is remedied by justification: The filth of sin is inchoatively healed by sanctification: The inherence of sin is totally eradicated by glorification. For as it entered into our persons, by the union of our Souls and Bodies; so it is perfectly cast out by their disunion or separation at death. The last stroke is then given to the work of sanctification, and the last is evermore the perfecting stroke: Sin languished under imperfect sanctification in the time of life, but it gives up the Ghost under perfected sanctification, from […] after death. Sanctification gave it its deadly wound, but