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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.
(4.) It is past all Controversy, that the Soul is a Substance, because it is the Subject of Properties, Affections and Habits; which is the very strict and formal notion of a Substance. All the affections and passions of Hope, Desire, Love, Delight, Fear, Sorrow and the rest, are all rooted in it, and spring out of it, and so for Habits, Arts, and Sciences*; 'tis the Soul in which they are lodged and seated. Having once gotten a Promptitude to act, either by some strong, or by some frequently repeated actings, they abide in the Soul, even when the Acts are intermitted; as in sleep, a Navigator, Scribe, or Musician, are really Artists, when they are neither Sailing, Writing or Playing: Because the habits still remain in their minds, as is evident in this, that when they awake, they can perform their several works, without learning the rules of their Art anew.
(4.) It is past all Controversie, that the Soul is a Substance, because it is the Subject of Properties, Affections and Habits; which is the very strict and formal notion of a Substance. All the affections and passions of Hope, Desire, Love, Delight, Fear, Sorrow and the rest, are all rooted in it, and spring out of it, and so for Habits, Arts, and Sciences*; 'tis the Soul in which they are lodged and seated. Having once gotten a Promptitude to act, either by some strong, or by some frequently repeated actings, they abide in the Soul, even when the Acts are intermitted; as in sleep, a Navigator, Scribe, or Musician, are really Artists, when they are neither Sailing, Writing or Playing: Because the habits still remain in their minds, as is evident in this, that when they awake, they can perform their several works, without learning the rules of their Art anew.
- *A […] Subjectum […] omnium vi••• tum & vitiorum, S••enti• rum & Artium. Buchan. loc. Come. p. 86.A 〈…〉 Subjectum 〈…〉 omnium vi tum & vitiorum, Senti rum & Artium. Buchan. loc. Com. p. 86.