A39675:937
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.
*It is a thing (saith my Author) both known and frequent, that the Inhabitants of the Scottish Isles, when their Friends are dying, come to them, and request them that upon such or such a day after their death, and in such a place, they would meet them; which the Dead accordingly ⟨p. 264⟩do at the time and place agreed upon, and have sometimes discourse with them.
*It is a thing (saith my Author) both known and frequent, that the Inhabitants of the Scotish Isles, when their Friends are dying, come to them, and request them that upon such or such a day after their death, and in such a place, they would meet them; which the Dead accordingly ⟨p. 264⟩do at the time and place agreed upon, and have sometimes discourse with them.
- *Insularum Sco•icarum incolae ad agros, cum pro deploratis habentur, accedunt, & rogant, at certo, à morte, die, locoq, certo ip•as conveniant; quod & mort•i tempore & loco praestitutis •r•• stant. Sterne ibid.
Infinite examples of Murders (saith Dr. More) have been discovered by Dreams, the Souls of the Persons murdered seeming to appear to some or other asleep, and to make their complaints to them; giving us a notable example out of Baronius, of Marsilius Ficinus, who having made a solemn vow with Michael Mercatus, (after they had been pretty warmly disputing of the immortality of the Soul out of the Principles of their Master Plato) that whether of them two die first, should appear to his Friend, and give him certain information of that truth. It was Ficinus his fate to die first, and that not long after this mutual resolution. He was mindful of his promise when he had left the Body; for Mercatus being very intent at his studies, betimes on a morning, heard a Horse riding by with all speed, and observed that he stopped at his window; and therewith heard the voice of his Friend Ficinus, crying out aloud, O Michael, Michael, vera, vera sunt illa: That is O Michael, Michael, those things are true, they are true. Whereupon he suddenly opened his window, and espying Marsilius upon a white Steed, called after him, but he vanished out of his sight. He sent therefore presently to Florence to know how Marsilius did, and understood that he died about that hour he called at his window.