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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 IV.
(4)The Scriptures forbid consultations with the Dead, Deut. 18.10, 11. This prohibition supposeth some did consult them and received answers from them; which must needs imply some commerce betwixt the Living and the Souls that are departed. And considering he had before forbidden their consultation with the Devil, it appears that here we must needs understand the very Souls of the Dead, and not the Devil personating them only.
(4)THe Scriptures forbid consultations with the Dead, Deut. 18.10, 11. This prohibition supposeth some did consult them and received answers from them; which must needs imply some commerce betwixt the Living and the Souls that are departed. And considering he had before forbidden their consultation with the Devil, it appears that here we must needs understand the very Souls of the Dead, and not the Devil personating them only.
- (4)In sacris Scripturis consulere mortuos pa•s•m prohibetur, ut Deut. 18.10, 11. Sed si homines à mortuis non suscitentur, legibus ha•d opus est; & si mortuirogati non aliquando responderent, ab hominibus haudquaquam co••••erentur. Sterne de Morte, ubi sup.