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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.
All Substances are not gross, material, visible and palpable substances, but there are spiritual and immaterial, as well as corporeal substances discernible by Sight or Touch. To deny this were to turn a downright Sadducee, and to deny the existence of Angels and Spirits, Acts 23.8. The word Substance as it is applied to the Soul of Man, puzzles and confounds the dark understandings of some, that know not what to make of an immaterial Substance, whereas in this place it is no more than *substare accidentibus, (i. e.) to be a subject in which, properties, affections and habits are seated and subjected. This is a spiritual Substance, and is frequently in Scripture called a Spirit; into thy hands I commit my spirit, Luke 23.46. Lord Jesus receive my spirit, Acts 7.59. and so frequently all over the Scriptures. And the spirituality of its nature appears (1.) by its Descent in a peculiar way from the Father of Spirits: (2.) in that it rejoiceth in the essential Properties of a Spirit: (3.) That at Death it returns to that great Spirit who was its Efficient and Former.
All Substances are not gross, material, visible and palpable substances, but there are spiritual and immaterial, as well as corporeal substances discernable by Sight or Touch. To deny this were to turn a downright Sadducee, and to deny the existence of Angels and Spirits, Acts 23.8. The word Substance as it is applied to the Soul of Man, puzzles and confounds the dark understandings of some, that know not what to make of an immaterial Substance, whereas in this place it is no more than *substare accidentibus, (i. e.) to be a subject in which, properties, affections and habits are seated and subjected. This is a spiritual Substance, and is frequently in Scripture called a Spirit; into thy hands I commit my spirit, Luke 23.46. Lord Iesus receive my spirit,