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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.
QUEST. IV. Whether separated Souls have any knowledge of, or commerce and intercourse with men in this life: and if not, What is to be thought of the Apparitions of the Dead?
QUEST. IV. Whether separated Souls have any knowledg of, or commerce and intercourse with men in this life: and if not, What is to be thought of the Apparitions of the Dead?
1. By separated Souls, understand the departed Souls both of the Godly and Ungodly indifferently: and not as it is restrained to one sort only in the Text; for of both it is pretended there are frequent Apparitions after death.
2. By the knowledge such Souls are supposed to have after death both of persons and things in this lower World, we understand not a general knowledge, which one fort of them have of the state and condition of the Church militant on earth; for this we think cannot be denied to the Spirits of the just made perfect, seeing they are still fellow Members with us of the same mystical body of Christ, and do behold our High-Priest appearing before God, and offering up our prayers for us; and long for the consummation of the Body of Christ as well as cry for vengeance against the persecutors thereof, Rev. 6. 10. Nor do I think those words, Isai. 63.16. repugnant hereunto, Abraham is ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledgeth us not. For I look upon the import of those words only as an humble acknowledgement of their defection, which rendered them unworthy that their Forefathers should own or acknowledge them any more for their children,