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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.
1It may be also queried whether Satan by his Instruments may not foretell the death of some men? How else did the Witch of Ender foretell the death of Saul? And the Soothsayers the death of Caesar upon the Ides, (i. e.) the fifteenth day of March, which was the fatal day to him?
1It may be also queried whether Satan by his Instruments may not foretel the death of some men? How else did the Witch of Ender foretel the death of Saul? And the Southsayers the death of Caesar upon the Ides, (i. e.) the fifteenth day of March, which was the fatal day to him?
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1Foreknowledge of things to come which appear not in their next causes, is certainly the Lords Prerogative; Isai. 41.23. Whatever therefore Satan doth in this matter, must be done either by conjecture, or commission. As to the case of Saul, 'tis not to be questioned but that he knowing the Kingdom was made to David by promise, and that the Lord was departed from Saul, and saw how near the Armies were to a Battle, might strongly conjecture and conclude, and accordingly tell him, To morrow thou shalt be with me, 1 Sam. 28.19.
1Foreknowledg of things to come which appear not in their next causes, is certainly the Lords Prerogative; Isai. 41.23. Whatever therefore Satan doth in this matter, must be done either by conjecture, or commission. As to the case of Saul, 'tis not to be questioned but that he knowing the Kingdom was made to David by promise, and that the Lord was departed from Saul, and saw how near the Armies were to a Battel, might strongly conjecture and conclude, and accordingly tell him, To morrow thou shalt be with me,