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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.
What good offices are to be done by Spirits for us, the Angels are Gods Commission-Officers to do them, Hebr. 1.14. They are all ministering Spirits sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of Salvation: these are the Spirits sent forth to walk to and fro through the earth, Zech. 1.10. their Ministry was emblematically represented in Jacob's Vision, where they were seen ascending and descending as upon a Ladder, betwixt Heaven and Earth, Gen. 28.12. Yea, their very name Angel, is a name of office, signifying a Messenger, or one sent.
What good offices are to be done by Spirits for us, the Angels are Gods Commission-Officers to do them, Hebr. 1.14. They are all ministring Spirits sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of Salvation: these are the Spirits sent forth to walk to and fro through the earth, Zech. 1.10. their Ministry was emblematically represented in Iacob's Vision, where they were seen ascending and descending as upon a Ladder, betwixt Heaven and Earth, Gen. 28.12. Yea, their very name Angel, is a name of office, signifying a Messenger, or one sent.
And for the mischief done by Spirits in this World, the Scriptures ascribe that to the Devils: those unquiet Spirits have their Walks in this World, they compass the whole earth, and walk up and down in it, Job 1.7. and 1 Pet. 5.8. they can assume any shape, yea, I doubt not but he can act their Bodies when dead, as well as he did their Souls and Bodies when alive: how great his power is this way, appears in what is so often done by him in the Bodies of Witches. They are not ordinarily therefore the Spirits of men, but other Spirits that appear to us.