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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.
§. 3.
The Communications of Angels and Souls in Heaven, is therefore conceived to be an ability in those blessed Spirits silently and without sound to instil and insinuate their minds and thoughts to each other, by a mere act of their Wills: just as we now speak to God or our selves in our hearts,1 when our lips do not move, or the least outward sign appears.
The Communications of Angels and Souls in Heaven, is therefore conceived to be an ability in those blessed Spirits silently and without sound to instil and insinuate their minds and thoughts to each other, by a meer act of their Wills: just as we now speak to God or our selves in our hearts,1 when our lips do not move, or the least outward sign appears.
- 1Dicimur nobis ipsis in animo loqui, cum aliquid actu cogitamus; & animo volvimus: cogitamus autem actu, ex voluntatis imperio, hoc est, cum volumus. Zanch.
There are two ways by which the Souls of men speak, one outwardly by the Instruments of Speech, or sensible signs; the other inwardly, without sound, or sign. This inward silent Speech is nothing else, but an act of the Will, calling forth such things into our actual Thoughts and Meditations, which before lay hid and quiet in the Memory, or habit of knowledge. These thoughts, or actual revolvings of things in the mind, is in Scripture called [Greek or Hebrew], a Word or Speech in the heart,