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Author: Flavel, John, 1630?-1691.
Title: 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 ...
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Print source: 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 ...
Flavel, John, 1630?-1691.
London: Printed for Francis Tyton ..., 1685.
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Soul -- Early works to 1800.
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A39675.0001.001
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To the much honoured his dear Kins∣man, Mr. Iohn Flavell, and Mr. Ed∣ward Crispe of London, Merchants; and the rest of my worthy Friends in London, Ratcliffe, Shadwell, and Lymehouse: Grace, Mercy, and Peace.
THE PREFACE.
A Synopsis, or View of the Soul in the state of Composition, in six Particulars; in this first Table of Life, viz.
A View of the Soul as separated, considered three ways in this Table of Death.
CORRIGENDA.
GENESIS II. vers. vii. And the Lord formed Man out of the dust of the Ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of Life; and Man became a living Soul.
USE.
Inference. I.
A Separate Soul immediately capable of Blessedness. Inference II.
Inference III.
Inference IV.
Inference V.
Inference VI.
Inference VII.
Inference VIII.
Inference IX.
Inference X.
Inference XI.
Inference XII.
Inference XIII.
DOCT. II.
Inference I.
Inference II.
Inference III.
Inference IV.
Inference V.
Inference VI.
Inference VII.
Inference VIII.
Inference IX.
Inference X.
TEXT.
DOCTRINE.
Argument I.
Argument II.
Argument III.
Argument IV.
Argument V.
Argument VI.
Argument VII.
Argument VIII.
Inference I.
Inference II.
Inference III.
Inference IV.
Inference V.
Inference VI.
Inference VII.
Inference VIII.
Inference IX.
Inference X.
TEXT.
DOCTRINE.
Inference I.
Inference II.
Inference III.
Inference IV.
USE II. Of Reproof.
USE III. Of Exhortation.
TEXT.
DOCT I. How srong soever the Affections and inclinations of Souls are to the fleshly Tabernacles they now live in, yet they must put them off, and that speedily.
Inference I.
Inference II.
Inference III.
Inference IV.
Inference V.
Inference VI.
Inference VII.
TEXT.
DOCT. That righteous and holy Souls once separated from then Bodies by death, are immediately perfected in them∣selves, and associated with others alike perfect in the Kingdom of God.
PROP. I.
PROP. II. Actual Separation may be considered either in fieri, in the previous Pangs and foregoing Agonies of it; or in facto esse, in the last separating stroke which actually parts the Soul and Body asunder, lays the Body pro∣strate and dead at the feet of Death, and thrusts the Soul quite out of its ancient and beloved habitation.
PROP. III. The Separation of the Soul and Body makes a great and wonderful change upon both, but especially upon the Soul.
PROP. IV. The Souls of the Righteous, at the instant of their Sepa∣ration, are received by the blessed Angels, and by them transferred unto the place of Blessedness.
PROP. V. The Soul is not so maimed and prejudiced by its separation from the Body, but that it both can and doth live, and act without it: and performs the acts of Cogitation and Volition, without the aid and ministry of the Body.
PROP. VI. That the separated Souls of the just, having finished all their work of obedience on earth, and the Spirit ha∣ving finished all his work of Sanctification upon them, they do ascend to God, with all the habits of Grace in∣herent in them; and all the comfortable improve∣ments of their Graces, accompanying and following them.
PROP. VII. The Souls of the just when separated from their Bodies, do not wander up and down this World, nor hover about the Sepulchres where their Bodies lie, nor are they detain'd in any Purgatory, in order to their more perfect Purification; nor do they fall asleep in a benummed, stupid State: But do forthwith pass into glory, and are immediately with the Lord.
PROP. VIII. At the time a gracious Souls separation from the Body, it is instantly, and perfectly freed from sin, which till that time dwelt in it, from its beginning: But thenceforth shall do so no more.
Consectary I.
Consectary II.
Consectary III.
PROP. IX. The Pleasures and Delights of the separate Spirits of the just, are incomparably greater and sweeter, than those they did, or at any time could experience in their bodily state.
Consideration I.
Consideration II.
Consideration. III.
Consideration IV.
PROP. X. That Gracious Souls separate from the Body, do at∣tain to the perfection of knowledge with more ease than they attained any small degree of knowledge, whilst they dwelt in the Body.
PROP. XI. The separated Souls of the Iust do live in a more high and excellent way of Communion with God in his Tem∣ple-worship in Heaven, than ever they did in the sweetest Gospel-Ordinances, and most Spiritual Duties, in which they conversed with him here on Earth.
PROP. XII. It pleaseth God at some times, even in this life, to give some men the foresight, and foretaste of that Blessedness, which holy separated Souls do now en∣joy, and themselves are shortly to enjoy with God in Glory.
And now, having explained the substance of the Doctrine in these twelve Propositions; it remains that as a Mantissa or Cast upon the whole, I farther clear what belongs to this Subject, in the Solution of several Que∣ries about the Soul in its unbodied and separate state; and though the Nature of some of these Queries may seem too curious, yet I shall labour to speak according to the rules of Sobriety, and contain my self within the line of modesty, in what I shall speak about them: And the first is this, QUERIE I.
Solution. §. 1.
§. 2.
§. 3.
§. 4.
§. 5.
§. 6.
QUERIE II.
Sol. §. 1.
QUEST. III. Whether any Souls have notices, and forewarnings given them by Signs, or Predictions in an extraordinary way, of their ap∣proaching Separation?
REASON I.
REASON II.
REASON III.
QUEST. IV. Whether separated Souls have any knowledg of, or commerce and intercourse with men in this life: and if not, What is to be thought of the Apparitions of the Dead?
Argument I.
Argument II.
Argument III.
Argument IV.
First Concession is this.
Concession 2.
To conclude.
Objection 1.
Solution:
Object. 2.
Sol.
Object. 3.
Sol.
Object. 4.
Sol.
Object. 5.
Sol.
Caution I.
Caution II.
Caution III.
QUERIE V.
§. 1.
§. 2.
§. 3.
§. 4.
One COROLLARY.
QUERIE VI.
Argument I.
Argument II.
Argument III.
Argument IV.
Argument V.
Objection 1.
Solution.
Object. 2.
Solution.
COROLLARY.
The USES of the Point.
Inference I.
Inference II.
Inference III.
Consideration I.
Consideration II.
Consideration III.
Consideration IV.
Consideration V.
Consideration VI.
Inference IV.
Inference V.
Inference VI.
USE II.
Objection.
Solution.
Argument I.
Objection
Sol.
I. The Pleas of Nature for life, and against dissolution.
II. The Pleas of Faith in behalf of Death.
Argument II.
Argument III.
Argument IV.
Argument V.
Argument VI.
Argument VII.
Argument VIII.
Argument IX.
Argument X.
Argument XI.
Argument XII.
1 Pet. iii. ver. 19. By which also he went and preached unto the SPI∣RITS in PRISON.
DOCT.
PROP. I. That the guilt of all sin gathers to and settles in the Conscience of every Christless sinner, and makes up a vast treasure of guilt in the course of his life in this World.
PROP. II. All the sin and guilt contracted upon the Souls and consciences of impeni∣tent men in this World, accompanies and follows their departed Souls to judgment; and there brings them under the dreadful condemnation of the great and terrible God, which cuts off all their hopes and comforts for ever.
PROP. III. The Souls of the damned are exceeding large and capacious subjects of wrath and torment; and in their separate state their capacity is greatly enlarged, both by laying asleep all those affections whose exer∣cise is relieving: and throughly awakning all those passions which are tormenting.
PROP. IV. The wrath, indignation, and revenge of God poured out as the just reward of sin upon the so capacious Souls of the damned, is the principal part of their misery in Hell.
PROP. V The separate Spirit of a damned man becomes a tormentor to it self by the various and efficacious actings of its own conscience, which are a special part of its torment in the other World.
PROP. VI. That which makes the torments and terrours of the damned Spirits so extream and terrible, is, that they are unrelievable miseries, and torments for ever.
Inference I.
Inference II.
Inference III.
Inference IV.
Inference V.
Inference VI.
Inference VII.
Inference VIII.
Inference IX.
Inference X.
Inference XI.
Inference XII.
Inference XIII.
Inference XIV.
MATTH. 16.26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
DOCT. I.
Inference I.
Inference II.
Inference III.
Inference IV.
Inference V.
Inference VI.
Inference VII.
Inference VIII.
Inference IX.
DOCT. II.
The first way to Hell discovered.
The first way to Hell barr'd.
The second way to Hell discovered.
The second way to Hell shut up.
The third way to Hell discovered.
The third way to Hell shut up.
The fourth way of losing the Soul opened.
The fourth way to Hell shut up, by two Considerations.
The fifth way of losing the Soul opened.
The fifth way to Hell shut up by three Considerations.
The sixth way of losing the Soul opened.
The sixth way to Hell shut up by five Considerations.
The seventh way of losing the Soul discovered.
The seventh way to destruction shut up by five weighty Considerations.
The eighth way of losing the Soul opened.
The eighth way to Hell shut up by six weighty Considerations.
The ninth way of losing the precious Soul opened.
The ninth way to Hell by Prophaneness stopt.
The tenth way leading to Destruction marked.
The tenth way of destroying Souls shut up by two Counsels.
The eleventh way of ruining the precious Soul opened.
The way to Hell by Formality barred up.
The twelfth way to Hell opened.
The twelfth way to Damnation barred by three Considerations.
Inference I.
Inference II.
Inference III.
Inference IV.
Inference V.
EPHES. 5.16. —Redeeming the time (or opportunity) because the days are evil.
DOCTRINE. That the wisdom of a Christian is eminently discovered in sa∣ving and improving all opportunities in this World, for that World which is to come.
Argument I.
Argument II.
Argument III.
Argument IV.
Argument V.
Argument VI.
The VSE.
A Catalogue of Books Printed for, and Sold by Francis Tyton Bookseller at the Three Daggers in Fleetstreet near the Temple-Gate.
Books in Folio.
Books in Quarto.
Books in Octavo.
Books in small 8• 120 and 240