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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.
The Soul is the most wonderful and astonishing piece of Divine workmanship: 'Tis no Hyperbole to call it the Breath of God, the Beauty of Man, the Wonder of Angels, and the Envy of Devils. One Soul is of more value than all the Bodies in the World.
The Nature of it is so Spiritual and sublime, that it cannot be perfectly known by the most acute and penetrating understanding, assisted in the search by all the aids Philosophy can contribute.
It is not my design in this Discourse to treat of the several Faculties and Powers of the Soul, or to give you the Rise, Natures, or Numbers of its Affections and Passions: but I shall confine my Discourse to its general Nature and Original. And seeing none can so well discover the Nature ⟨p. 10⟩of it, as he who is the Author of it, as *Tertullian speaks, I therefore justly expect the best light from his Word, though I will not neglect any other aid he is pleased elsewhere to afford.
- *Si quid de Anima examinandum est, ad Dei regulas dirigat: certè nul•um alium potiorem animae Demonstratorem, quàm Auctorem, &c. Tertul. de Anima.