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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.
Consectary II.
Separated Souls become impeccable, or free from all the hazard of sin, from the time of their separation. For, there being no root of sin, now inherent in them, consequently no temptation to sin can fasten upon them: all temptations have their handles in the Corruptions of our natures. Did not Satan find matter prepared within us, dry tinder fitted to his hand, he might strike in temptations long enough before one of his hellish sparks could catch or fasten upon us. Temptations are grievous exercises to Believers; they are darts, Eph. 6.16. they are thorns, 2 Cor. 12.7. but the separate Soul is out of Gun-shot. 'Twere as good discharge an Arrow at the body of the Sun, as a temptation at a translated Soul.
Separated Souls become impeccable, or free from all the hazard of sin, from the time of their separation. For, there being no root of sin, now inherent in them, consequently no temptation to sin can fasten upon them: all temptations have their handles in the Corruptions of our natures. Did not Satan find matter prepar'd within us, dry tinder fitted to his hand, he might strike in temptations long enough before one of his hellish sparks could catch or fasten upon us. Temptations are grievous exercises to Believers; they are darts, Eph. 6.16. they are thorns, 2 Cor. 12.7. but the separate Soul is out of Gun-shot. 'Twere as good discharge an Arrow at the body of the Sun, as a temptation at a translated Soul.