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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.
And for wicked men, it cannot be thought God should favour and privilege them in this matter above his own children; and as for Satan, he knows not the time of their death himself: and if he did, it would thwart his design and interest to discover it to them, Luke 11.21. So that upon the whole, it should seem such signs and predictions are of no use, and the relations and reports of them fabulous.
And for wicked men, it cannot be thought God should favour and priviledg them in this matter above his own children; and as for Satan, he knows not the time of their death himself: and if he did, it would thwart his design and interest to discover it to them, Luke 11.21. So that upon the whole, it should seem such signs and predictions are of no use, and the relations and reports of them fabulous.
But though these reasons make the common and daily use of such signs and predictions needless,1 yet they destroy not the credibility of them in all cases, and at all times. For I. There are recorded instances in Scripture of premonitions and predictions of the death of persons. Thus the death of Abijah was foretold to his Mother by the Prophet, and the precise hour thereof, which fell out answerably, 1 King 14.6, 12. And thus the death of the King of Assyria was foretold exactly both as to kind, and place, Isaiah 37.7, 37, 38. II. These predictions serve to other ends and uses sometimes, than the preparation of the persons warned, even to display the foreknowledge, power and justice of God in marking out his Enemies for ruin. And thus the Lord is known by the judgments that he executeth, Psal. 9.16.