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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.
To this we may add 2 Cor. 4.16. where the Soul is called the Man, and the inner Man too, the body being but the external face or shadow of the Man. And to this Philosophy agrees. The best Philosophers are so far from thinking that the body is the substantial part of Man, and the Soul a thing dependent on it; that contrarily they affirm that the body depends upon the Soul, *and that it is the Soul that conserves and sustains it. And that the Body is in the Soul, rather than the Soul in the Body. And that which is seen is not the Man, but that is the Man which is invisible. That the body might be killed and the Man not hurt, meaning the Soul, which only deserves the name of Man. Now if it be the chief part of Man, and that which is only worthy the name of a Man, and from which therefore the whole is and ought to be denominated a Man: If it be so far from depending on the body, or being contained within the body, that the body rather depends on it, and is in it; then surely the Soul must be what we describe it to be, a substantial Being.
To this we may add 2 Cor. 4.16. where the Soul is called the Man, and the inner Man too, the body being but the external face or shadow of the Man. And to this Philosophy agrees. The best Philosophers are so far from thinking that the body is the substantial part of Man, and the Soul a thing dependent on it; that contrarily they affirm that the body depends upon the Soul, *and that it is the Soul that conserves and sustains it. And that the Body is in the Soul, rather than the Soul in the Body. And that which is seen is not the Man, but that is the Man which is invisible. That the body might be kill'd and the Man not hurt, meaning the Soul, which only deserves the name of Man. Now if it be the chief part of Man, and that which is only worthy the name of a Man, and from which therefore the whole is and ought to be denominated a Man: If it be so far from depending on the body, or being contained within the body, that the body rather depends on it, and is in it; then surely the Soul must be what we describe it to be, a substantial Being.