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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.
§. 2.
But yet we cannot imagine these Communications betwixt them to be by words formed by such instruments and Organs of Speech as we now use, for they are bodiless Beings: words and articulate sounds are fitted to the use and service of embodied Spirits. It is therefore probable, that they convey and communicate their minds to one another, as the blessed Angels do:1 not with Tongues of flesh, (though we read of the Tongues of Angels, 1 Cor. 13.1.) but in a way somewhat analogous to this, though much more noble and excellent. For look, as the Scripture stiles the most excellent food, Angels food: so the most excellent Speech, or most eloquent Tongues, Angels Tongues. The purest Rhetoric that ever flowed from the lips of the most charming Orator, is but babbling, to the Language of Angels, or of Spirits made perfect.
But yet we cannot imagine these Communications betwixt them to be by words formed by such instruments and Organs of Speech as we now use, for they are bodiless Beings: words and articulate sounds are fitted to the use and service of embodied Spirits. It is therefore probable, that they conveigh and communicate their minds to one another, as the blessed Angels do:1 not with Tongues of flesh, (though we read of the Tongues of Angels, 1 Cor. 13.1.) but in a way somewhat analogous to this, though much more noble and excellent. For look, as the Scripture stiles the most excellent food, Angels food: so the most excellent Speech, or most eloquent Tongues, Angels Tongues. The purest Rhetorick that ever flowed from the lips of the most charming Orator, is but babling, to the Language of Angels, or of Spirits made perfect.