A39675:968
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.
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If there be any force of reason in this Plea, it carries it rather for the Angels than for departed Souls: for Angels are gathered under the same common head with the Saints; the Text tells us, we are come to an innumerable company of Angels: they and the Saints are fellow Citizens, and we know they are a more noble order of Spirits: and as for their love to the Elect, it is exceeding great, as great to be sure as the departed Souls of our dearest Relatives can be. For after death they sustain no more civil Relations to us: all that they do sustain is as fellow members of the same body, or fellow Citizens, which Angels also are, as well as they.
If there be any force of reason in this Plea, it carries it rather for the Angels than for departed Souls: for Angels are gather'd under the same common head with the Saints; the Text tells us, we are come to an innumerable company of Angels: they and the Saints are fellow Citizens, and we know they are a more noble order of Spirits: and as for their love to the Elect, it is exceeding great, as great to be sure as the departed Souls of our dearest Relatives can be. For after death they sustain no more civil Relations to us: all that they do sustain is as fellow members of the same body, or fellow Citizens, which Angels also are, as well as they.