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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.
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 ⟨p. 216⟩glorification its final Abolition. For it is with our sins after Regeneration, as it was with that Beast mentioned Dan. 7.12. which though it was wounded with a deadly wound, yet its life was prolonged for a season: And this is the appointed season for its expiration. For if at their dissolution they are immediately received into glory (as it hath been proved they are, in our seventh Proposition) they must necessarily be freed perfectly from sin, immediately upon their dissolution; because nothing that is unclean, can enter into that pure and holy place: They must be, as the Text truly represents them, The Spirits of just men made perfect.
There is a threefold burdensom 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 entred 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 stroak is then given to the work of sanctification, and the last is evermore the perfecting stroak: 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 ⟨p. 216⟩