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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.
Argument I.
Angels by command from God are useful and helpful to men;(1) they are the Saints Guardians, and it is probable that each Christian hath his peculiar Angel: whence it will follow that separated Souls do mingle themselves with humane affairs, and that because they are Angels, at least equal unto Angels, Luke 20.36. Besides, they being Spirits that were once embodied, must needs be more fit for this employment, than those who never had any tie at all to a Body: unless we can imagine them to have lost the remembra••• of all that ever they did and suffered ⟨p. 261⟩in the Body, as also that they put off and buried all, their affections to us with their Bodies, which is hard to think. Even as Christ our High-Priest is qualified for that office above all others in Heaven, because he once dwelt and suffered in a Body like ours here upon Earth; so separated Souls are qualified above all other Spirits who are unrelated to Bodies of flesh.
ANgels by command from God are useful and helpful to men;(1) they are the Saints Guardians, and it is probable that each Christian hath his peculiar Angel: whence it will follow that separated Souls do mingle themselves with humane affairs, and that because they are Angels, at least equal unto Angels,