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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.
Indeed it was never doubted, but after the Resurrection they shall both know and talk with one another in a more excellent and perfect manner than now they do; but till that time, the Reasons above seem to persuade us, that all the Converses above are only betwixt God and them, which indeed is enough to make them happy: and indeed, if this ability be allowed to separated Souls, it seems to render the Resurrection of their Bodies needless; for they are well enough without them. But certainly the Spirits of just men are not Mutes: such an August Assembly of holy and excellent Spirits, do not live together in their Fathers House ⟨p. 275⟩without mutual Converse and fellowship with each other, as well as with God.
Indeed it was never doubted, but after the Resurrection they shall both know and talk with one another in a more excellent and perfect manner than now they do; but till that time, the Reasons above seem to perswade us, that all the Converses above are only betwixt God and them, which indeed is enough to make them happy: and indeed, if this ability be allowed to separated Souls, it seems to render the Resurrection of their Bodies needless; for they are well enough without them. But certainly the Spirits of just men are not Mutes: such an August Assembly of holy and excellent Spirits, do not live together in their Fathers House ⟨p. 275⟩without mutual Converse and fellowship with each other, as well as with God.
That acute and judicious Divine, Mr. Joseph Symonds, in the Epistle to his Book, entitled Sight, and Faith, expresseth himself about this matter thus. I often think (saith he) of the Communion of the Spirits of men, which certainly is more than many are acquainted with: though we act one upon another in our present state, by the help of sense; yet we are wrought and designed to a more excellent way. Angels and the Spirits of men made perfect, converse and trade in a mutual Communication, not without sense, but without such sense as ours. This, as eternal life begins here, and is found in some degrees in this Mortal State, though not in so visible appearances as to lie open to much observation.