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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.
(1.) It descends in a peculiar way from the Father of Spirits, as hath been shown in the opening of this Text: God stiles himself its Father, Heb. 12.9. its Former, Zech. 12.1. 'Tis true, he giveth to all living things [Greek or Hebrew], life and breath, Acts 1•.25. Other Souls are from him, as well as the rational Soul.; but in a far different way, and Manner. They flow not immediately from him by Creation,1 as this doth. It is said, Let the Earth bring forth the living Creature after his kind, but God created Man in his own Image: Which seems plainly to make a specific difference betwixt the reasonable and all other Souls.
(1.) It descends in a peculiar way from the Father of Spirits, as hath been shewn in the opening of this Text: God stiles himself its Father, Heb. 12.9. its Former, Zech. 12.1. 'Tis true, he giveth to all living things 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, life and breath, Acts 1•.25. Other Souls are from him, as well as the rational Soul.; but in a far different way, and Manner. They flow not immediately from him by Creation,1 as this doth. It is said, Let the Earth bring forth the living Creature after his kind, but God created Man in his own Image: Which seems plainly to make a specifical difference betwixt the reasonable and all other Souls.