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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.
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.
That acute and judicious Divine, Mr. Ioseph 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.
Angels good and bad do act upon our Spirits, and our Spirits hold converse with them, and with the Father of Spirits, which may be discerned in secret Parlies and Discourses betwixt them and us; much of this appears in David's Psalms: and there passeth not only an inward speech, but there are invisible approaches, entertainments and touches, which Paul found when bound in the Spirit, and under the working of God, which wrought in him mightily, Col. 1.29. it is also most certain that our Souls are not mute, and shut out from all mutual Traffic with each other, except what they have by the mediation of Senses.
Angels good and bad do act upon our Spirits, and our Spirits hold converse with them, and with the Father of Spirits, which may be discerned in secret Parlies and Discourses betwixt them and us; much of this appears in David's Psalms: and there passeth not only an inward speech, but there are invisible approaches, entertainments and touches, which Paul found when bound in the Spirit, and under the working of God, which wrought in him mightily,