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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.
1In this I think the learned Dr. Brown delivered his judgment more solidly and orthodoxly, than in some other points, when he saith, I believe that the whole frame of a Beast doth perish, and is left in the same State after death, as before it was marshalled into life. That the Souls of men know neither contrary, nor corruption? that they subsist beyond the body, and continue by the privilege of their proper nature, and without a Miracle: that the Souls of the faithful, as they leave earth; take possession of Heaven. That those Apparitions and Ghosts of departed persons, are not the wandering Souls of men, but the unquiet Walks of Devils, prompting and suggesting us unto mischief, blood and Villainy. And with this Opinion I concur, as to the ordinary and common Apparitions of the dead: and my Reasons are,
1In this I think the learned Dr. Brown delivered his judgment more solidly and orthodoxly, than in some other points, when he saith, I believe that the whole frame of a Beast doth perish, and is left in the same State after death, as before it was martialled into life. That the Souls of men know neither contrary, nor corruption? that they subsist beyond the body, and continue by the priviledge of their proper nature, and without a Miracle: that the Souls of the faithful, as they leave earth; take possession of Heaven. That those Apparitions and Ghosts of departed persons, are not the wandering Souls of men, but the unquiet Walks of Devils, prompting and suggesting us unto mischief, blood and Villany. And with this Opinion I concur, as to the ordinary and common Apparitions of the dead: and my Reasons are,
- 1Religio Med. Sect. 37. p. 82.
(1) Because the Scriptures every where describe the state of departed Souls as a fixed state, either in Heaven, or in Hell: and assigns the good or evil done in this World by Spirits, not to the departed Spirits of men, but to Angels or Devils: and it is our duty to regulate our Conceits by Scripture, and not according to the vain Philosophy of the Heathens, or the Superstitious Traditions and Opinions of Men.