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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.
First Concession is this.
That the separated Souls or Spirits of men are capable of performing and executing any Ministry or Service for God, (if he should please to commissionate them so to do) as well as Angels are, whom we know he frequently employs about the persons and affairs of his people on earth.
That the separated Souls or Spirits of men are capable of performing and executing any Ministry or Service for God, (if he should please to commissionate them so to do) as well as Angels are, whom we know he frequently imploys about the persons and affairs of his people on earth.
Though they become not Angels by their separation, as Maximus Tyrius calls them, but remain Spirits specifically distinct from them; yet are they Spiritual Substances as the Angels are: This their nature capacitates them either to live and act out of the Body, or to assume (as Angels do) an aerial Body for the time of their Ministry: nor do I know any thing in Scripture or Philosophy repugnant hereunto.
Though they become not Angels by their separation, as Maximus Tyrius calls them, but remain Spirits specifically distinct from them; yet are they Spiritual Substances as the Angels are: This their nature capacitates them either to live and act out of the Body, or to assume (as Angels do) an aerial Body for the time of their Ministry: nor do I know any thing in Scipture or Philosophy repugnant hereunto.