A39675:949
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.
'Tis therefore most likely they both appeared in their own Bodies:1 for Moses's Body we know was hidden by the Lord, and Elijah his Body immediately translated with his Soul to Heaven: when therefore the Lord would send them upon this solemn errand, the Soul of Moses probably re-assumed that Body which was never found by man, and Elijah was already embodied and fit immediately for this Expedition.
'Tis therefore most likely they both appeared in their own Bodies:1 for Moses's Body we know was hidden by the Lord, aud Elias his Body immediately translated with his Soul to Heaven: when therefore the Lord would send them upon this solemn errand, the Soul of Moses probably re-assumed that Body which was never found by man, and Elias was already embodied and fit immediately for this Expedition.
- 1Credibilius est verè corporibus suis apparnisse. Parcus in loc.
In like manner we read, Matth. 27.52, 53. that at the Resurrection of our Lord, many Bodies of the Saints arose, and appeared unto many: these were no Phantasms, but the very Souls of the departed Saints returned (having re-assumed their own Bodies) unto this World, not only to confirm the truth of Christs Resurrection, and adorn that great day: But as a Specimen or handsel of the Resurrection of all the Saints in the virtue of his Resurrection at the great Day.
In like manner we read, Matth. 27.52, 53. that at the Resurrection of our Lord, many Bodies of the Saints arose, and appeared unto many: these were no Phantasms, but the very Souls of the departed Saints returned (having re-assumed their own Bodies) unto this World, not only to confirm the truth of Christs Resurrection, and adorn that great day: But as a Specimen or handsel of the Resurrection of all the Saints in the vertue of his Resurrection at the great Day.