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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.
(1) Of the first sort and rank, was that famous Rapture of Paul, mentioned 2 Cor. 12.2, 3. I knew a man in Christ fourteen years ago, (whether in the Body I cannot tell, or whether out of the Body I cannot tell; God knoweth) such an one caught up to the Third Heaven, &c. *Tis questionable indeed, whether the Soul of the Apostle were really separated from his Body, ⟨p. 236⟩whilst he suffered that Ecstasy: Or whether his senses were only laid as it were a-sleep for that time; he himself could not determine the Question, much less can any other: but whether so, or so; this seems evident, that his senses were for that time utterly useless to him: if his Body was not dead, it was all one as if it had been so, for any use his Soul then made of it.2 In Ecstasies all the Senses and Powers are idle, except the Understanding: his Soul for that time seemed to be disjoined from his Body, much as a flame of fire, which you shall sometimes see to play and hover at a distance from the Wood, and then catching the Fuel again. Probably this was that Trance he fell into in the Temple when he was praying, mentioned in Acts 22.17.
(1) Of the first sort and rank, was that famous Rapture of Paul, mentioned 2 Cor. 12.2, 3. I knew a man in Christ fourteen years ago, (whether in the Body I cannot tell, or whether out of the Body I cannot tell; God knoweth) such an one caught up to the Third Heaven, &c. *Tis questionable indeed, whether the Soul of the Apostle were really separated from his Body, ⟨p. 236⟩whilst he suffered that Ecstasie: Or whether his senses were only laid as it were a-sleep for that time; he himself could not determine the Question, much less can any other: but whether so, or so; this seems evident, that his senses were for that time utterly useless to him: if his Body was not dead, it was all one as if it had been so, for any use his Soul then made of it.