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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.
That is to say, not a quality, or an accident inhering in another Being, or subject; as whiteness doth in the Snow: but a Being *by it self. Qualities and Accidents have no Existence of their own, but require another Being or subject to their Existence; but the Soul of Man is a Substantial Being of it self, which will evidently appear upon the following Grounds.
- *Anima est Ens per se, (i. e.) non est in aliquo per modum partis, aut forma, à quo in suo esse dependeat. Colleg. Conimbr. in lib. 11.
(1.) Because it is in a strict and proper sense created by God. He formeth or createth the Spirit in Man, Zech. 12.1. To him we are advised to commit it, as to a faithful Creator. 1 Pet. 4.19. The substantial Nature of the Soul is implied in the very Notion of its Creation; for *whatsoever is created, is a Substance, an Ens per se. Accidents are not said to be created, but concreated; the Crasis of humours, and results of matter, are not substances created, but things rising in a natural way from created Substances. They flow from, and as to their very Essence, depend upon preexistent matter; but the Soul was created out of nothing, and infused into the body after it was formed, and organized; which evidenceth its substantial Nature.
(1.) Because it is in a strict and proper sense created by God. He formeth or createth the Spirit in Man, Zech. 12.1. To him we are advised to commit it, as to a faithful Creator.