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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.
§. 1.
The state of Heaven (as was at large opened in our eleventh Proposition) being an Association of Angels, and blessed Souls for the glorifying and praising of God in his Temple there, and this Worship being carried on by joint consent, as appears by their joint ascriptions of Glory to God, Rev. 7.9, 10, 11, 12, they must of necessity for the orderly carrying on of this heavenly Worship, understand each others mind, and communicate their thoughts: for without this 'tis not imaginable how a joint or common service, in which thousands of thousands are employed, can be decorously and orderly managed, except we conceive of them as so many Machines, or wind-instruments that are managed by an intelligent Agent, though themselves be senseless and merely passive▪ certainly their consent is a different thing from that of the Keys of an Harpsichord, or strings of a Lute: they are Intelligent Beings who understand their own and each others mind; and beside, without this ability, that Society in Heaven would be less comfortable, as to mutual refreshing fellowship, than the Society of the Saints is here. So that it is not to be doubted, but these Noble and Excellent ⟨p. 277⟩Spirits can, and do Communicate their thoughts to each other, and that in a most excellent way.
The state of Heaven (as was at large open'd in our eleventh Proposition) being an Association of Angels, and blessed Souls for the glorifying and praising of God in his Temple there, and this Worship being carried on by joint consent, as appears by their joint ascriptions of Glory to God, Rev. 7.9, 10, 11, 12, they must of necessity for the orderly carrying on of this heavenly Worship, understand each others mind, and communicate their thoughts: for without this 'tis not imaginable how a joint or common service, in which thousands of thousands are imployed, can be decorously and orderly managed, except we conceive of them as so many Machines, or wind-instruments that are managed by an intelligent Agent, though themselves be senseless and meerly passive certainly their consent is a different thing from that of the Keys of an Harpsicord, or strings of a Lute: they are Intelligent Beings who understand their own and each others mind; and beside, without this ability, that Society in Heaven would be less comfortable, as to mutual refreshing fellowship, than the Society of the Saints is here. So that it is not to be doubted, but these Noble and Excellent