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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.
Whether the separated Souls of the just in Heaven, have any converse, or communication with each other? and how that can be, seeing all the Organs and Instruments of speech and hearing are laid aside with their Bodies?
It seems impossible that separated or unbodied Spirits should converse together, seeing the instruments by which the thoughts are communicated from one to another, are perished in the Grave. Suppose the Tongue of a man to be cut out, his eyes and hands perished or made useless whilst the Soul remains in the Body: it may enjoy its own thoughts within it self; but it is impossible to signify them to another by words or signs.
It seems impossible that separated or unbodied Spirits should converse together, seeing the instruments by which the thoughts are communicated from one to another, are perished in the Grave. Suppose the Tongue of a man to be cut out, his eyes and hands perished or made useless whilst the Soul remains in the Body: it may enjoy its own thoughts within it self; but it is impossible to signifie them to another by words or signs.
Or suppose a man in a deep sleep (wherein the Senses are only bound for a little time) he may indeed exercise his own fancy in a pleasant Dream, but another cannot understand how it is entertained; but in death the Senses are not bound but extinguished.