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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.
Much to the same purpose is that so famous and well attested story of the apparition of Major George Sydenham to Captain William Dyke, 1both of Somerset-shire, attested by the worthy and learned Dr. Thomas Dyke a near Kinsman of the Captain's, and by Mr. Douch, to whom both the Major and Captain were intimately known. The sum is this, The Major and Captain had many disputes about the Being of a God, and the immortality of the Soul, in which points they could never be resolved, though they much sought for and desired it, and therefore it was at last fully agreed betwixt them, that he that died first, should the third night after his Funeral, come betwixt the hours of twelve and one, to the little house in the Garden adjoining to Major Sydenham's house at Dulverton in Somerset-shire. The Major died first, ⟨p. 265⟩and the Captain happened to lie that very night which was appointed, in the same Chamber and Bed with Dr. Dyke; he acquainted the Doctor with the appointment, and his resolution to attend the place and hour that Night, for which purpose he had got the key of that Garden. The Doctor could by no means divert his purpose, but when the hour came he was upon the place, where he waited two hours and an half, neither seeing, nor hearing any thing more than usual. About six Weeks after, the Captain and Doctor went to Eaton, and lay again in the same Inn, but not the same Camber as before at Dulverton.
Much to the same purpose is that so famous and well attested story of the apparition of Major George Sydenham to Captain William Dyke, 1both of Somerset-shire, attested by the worthy and learned Dr. Thomas Dyke a near Kinsman of the Captain's, and by Mr. Douch, to whom both the Major and Captain were intimately known. The summ is this, The Major and Captain had many disputes about the Being of a God, and the immortality of the Soul, in which points they could never be resolved, though they much sought for and desired it, and therefore it was at last fully agreed betwixt them, that he that died first, should the third night after his Funeral, come betwixt the hours of twelve and one, to the little house in the Garden adjoining to Major Sydenham's house at Dulverton in Somerset-shire. The Major died first, ⟨p. 265⟩