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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.
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This is gratis dictum, to say no worse, a cheap and unwary expression: can no reason be given for the religious observance of the Testaments of the dead, but this Supposition? I deny it: for though they that made them be dead, yet God who is witness to all such acts and trusts, liveth: and though they cannot avenge the frauds and injustice of men, he both can, and will do it, 1 Thes. 4.6. which I think is a weightier ground and reason to enforce duty upon men, than the fear of Ghosts. Besides, This is a case wherein all the living are concerned, all that die must commit a trust to them that survive; and if frauds should be committed with impunity, who could safely repose confidence in another? Quod tangit omnes, tangi debet ab omnibus: that which is of general concernment, and becomes every mans interest, infers a general Obligation upon all.
This is gratis dictum, to say no worse, a cheap and unwary expression: can no reason be given for the religious observance of the Testaments of the dead, but this Supposition? I deny it: for though they that made them be dead, yet God who is witness to all such acts and trusts, liveth: and though they cannot avenge the frauds and injustice of men, he both can, and will do it, 1 Thes. 4.6. which I think is a weightier ground and reason to inforce duty upon men, than the fear of Ghosts. Besides, This is a case wherein all the living are concerned, all that die must commit a trust to them that survive; and if frauds should be committed with impunity, who could safely repose confidence in another? Quod tangit omnes, tangi debet ab omnibus: that which is of general concernment, and becomes every mans interest, infers a general Obligation upon all.