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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.
When the Spaniards came first among the poor Indians, they thought the Horse and his Rider to be one Creature; as many ignorant ones think the Soul and Body of Man to be nothing but Breath and Body: whereas indeed they are two distinct Creatures, as vastly different in their Natures, as the Rider and his Horse, or the Bird and his Cage. While the Man is on Horseback, he moves according to the motion of the Horse; and whilst the Bird is incaged, he eats and drinks, and sleeps, and hops, and sings in his Cage. But if the Horse fail and dye under his Rider, or the Cage be broken, the Man can go on his own feet, and the Bird enjoy himself as well, yea better in the open Fields and Woods, ⟨p. 12⟩than in the Cage: neither depend as to Being or action, on the Horse or Cage.
(3.) Both Scripture and Philosophy consent in this, that the Soul is the chief, most noble, and principal part of Man, from which the whole Man is, and ought to be denominated. So Gen. 46.26. All the Souls that came with Jacob into Egypt (i. e.) all the persons, as the Latins say tot capita, so many Heads, or Persons. The Apostle in 2 Cor. 5.8. seems to exclude the body from the notion of personality, when he saith, We are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord: that We, a term of personality is there given to the Soul exclusively of the Body: for the Body cannot be absent from it self; but We, that is, the Souls of Believers, may be both absent from it, and present with Christ.
(3.) Both Scripture and Philosophy consent in this, that the Soul is the chief, most noble, and principal part of Man, from which the whole Man is, and ought to be denominated. So Gen. 46.26. All the Souls that came with Iacob into Aegypt (i. e.) all the persons, as the Latines say tot capita, so many Heads, or Persons. The Apostle in