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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 III.
A Will or Testament (as Ulpian defines it) is the just sentence or declaration of our minds concerning that which we would have done after our decease.(3) These Testaments have always, and among all Nations, been religiously observed, as the Apostle witnesseth Gal. 3.15. The reasons of this so religious observance are a presumption that those who made them when a live, continue in the same mind and will after death, that they take care for the fulfilling of them, and ⟨p. 262⟩revenge the non-performance upon the unjust Executors. For otherwise there can be no reason why so great a stress should be laid upon the Will of the Dead, if they care not whether their Wills be performed or no. Why should we be so solicitous and studious about it, and pay so great reverence to it, but on this account?
A Will or Testament (as Vlpian defines it) is the just sentence or declaration of our minds concerning that which we would have done after our decease.(3) These Testaments have always, and among all Nations, been religiously observed, as the Apostle witnesseth Gal. 3.15. The reasons of this so religious observance are a presumption that those who made them when a live, continue in the same mind and will after death, that they take care for the fulfilling of them, and ⟨p. 262⟩