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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.
This is too manifest to be doubted by any that understands and believes the instances recorded in Scripture. Moses and Elijah long after their departure, appeared to, and talked with Christ upon the holy Mount, in the presence of some of his Apostles, Matth. 17.3. nor is there any reason to question the reality of their Apparition, or to think it to be no more than a Phantasm, 1or imaginary resemblance of these persons; but very Moses and Elijah themselves. For they came to be Witnesses to Christs Prophetical office, and it was not fit so great a point should be attested by imaginary Witnesses: or that they should be called Moses and Elijah, if they were not the very same persons.
This is too manifest to be doubted by any that understands and believes the instances recorded in Scripture. Moses and Elias long after their departure, appeared to, and talked with Christ upon the holy Mount, in the presence of some of his Apostles, Matth. 17.3. nor is there any reason to question the reality of their Apparition, or to think it to be no more than a Phantasm, 1or imaginary resemblance of these persons; but very Moses and Elias themselves. For they came to be Witnesses to Christs Prophetical office, and it was not fit so great a point should be attested by imaginary Witnesses: or that they should be called Moses and Elias, if they were not the very same persons.
- 1Non enim conveni•bat ut veritas mendacio, vel imaginariis testibus probaretur. Maldon. Capellus in loc.
'Tis therefore most likely they both appeared in their own Bodies: