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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.
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.
Nor will I deny, but upon some lesser (though never without weighty and solemn) occasions and reasons, God may sometimes send the Souls of the dead back again into this World, as in the cases before recited, to evidence against the Atheism of men, &c. Augustine relates a memorable example which fell out at Milan, 1where a certain Citizen being dead, there came a Creditor to whom he had been indebted, and unjustly demanded the money of his Son. The Son knew the Debt was satisfied by his Father, but having no Acquittance to show, his Father appeared to him in his sleep, and showed him where the Acquittance lay: whether it were the very Soul of his Father, or rather an Angel, as Augustine thinks, is not certain, though the one as well as the other be possible. But though rarely, and upon some weighty and solemn occasions some Souls have returned and appeared; yet I judge this is not frequently done, upon slight and ordinary errands: and therefore to give you my own thoughts, I judge