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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.
Argument I.
THE Soul and Body are the two essential constitutive parts of Man; either of these being wanting, the Man is not complete and perfect. The good of the whole, is the good of the parts themselves, and every thing hath a natural desire and appetite to its own good and perfection.1 'Tis confessed, the Soul for as much as concerns it self singly, is made perfect, and enjoys blessedness in the absence of the Body; but this is only the perfection and blessedness of one part of man; the other part viz the Body, lies in obscurity and corruption: and till both be blessed, and blessed together in a state of composition and reunion, the whole man is not made perfect. For this therefore the Soul must wait.
THE Soul and Body are the two essential constitutive parts of Man; either of these being wanting, the Man is not compleat and perfect. The good of the whole, is the good of the parts themselves, and every thing hath a natural desire and appetite to its own good and perfection.1 'Tis confessed, the Soul for as much as concerns it self singly, is made perfect, and enjoys blessedness in the absence of the Body; but this is only the perfection and blessedness of one part of man; the other part viz the Body, lies in obscurity and corruption: and till both be blessed, and blessed together in a state of composition and reunion, the whole man is not made perfect. For this therefore the Soul must wait.
- 1Anima separata ad unionem corporis propesa est, nam illa vult totius compositi actualem constitutionem; cum propter hanc tanquam finem illa sit, & in entium latitudine inveniatur. Atque haec est illa perfectio quam anima obtinet ex illo appetitu: nam bonum totius compositi, est bonum ipsarum partium. Affirmandum itaque est, animan separatam naturaliter desiderare resurrectionem. Alstedii Nat: Theol. pars prima, p. 214, 215.