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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.
A Substance which hath an essential principle of Life in it self. A living active Being. A living Soul, saith Moses in the Text; and hereby it is distinguished from, and opposed to matter, or body. The Soul moves it self and the body too; it hath a self-moving Virtue or Power in it self, whereas the matter or body is wholly passive, and is moved, and acted not by it self, but by this vital Spirit. James 2.26. The body without the Spirit is dead. It acts not at all but as it is acted by this invisible spirit. This is so plain that it admits of sensible proof and demonstration. Take mere matter, and compound or divide it, alter it and change it how you will, you can never make it see, feel, hear, or act vitally without a quickening and actuating Soul: Yet we must still remember, that this active, vital principle, the Soul, though it hath this vital Power in it self, it hath it not from it self, but in a constant receptive dependence upon God, the first Cause both of its Being and Power.
A Substance which hath an essential principle of Life in it self. A living active Being. A living Soul, saith Moses in the Text; and hereby it is distinguished from, and opposed to matter, or body. The Soul moves it self and the body too; it hath a self-moving Virtue or Power in it self, whereas the matter or body is wholly passive, and is moved, and acted not by it self, but by this vital Spirit. James 2.26. The body without the Spirit is dead. It acts not at all but as it is acted by this invisible spirit. This is so plain that it admits of sensible proof and demonstration. Take meer matter, and compound or divide it, alter it and change it how you will, you can never make it see, feel, hear, or act vitally without a quickning and actuating Soul: Yet we must still remember, that this active, vital principle, the Soul, though it hath this vital Power in it self, it hath it not from it self, but in a constant receptive dependance upon God, the first Cause both of its Being and Power.