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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.
Certainly, the heavenly pure Bodies do not differ so much from a dunghill, as the Soul and Body differ: they differ but as more pure and less pure matter; but these, as material and immaterial. If we consider wherein consists the Being of a Body, and wherein, that of a Soul, and then compare them, the matter will be clear.
Certainly, the heavenly pure Bodies do not differ so much from a dunghil, as the Soul and Body differ: they differ but as more pure and less pure matter; but these, as material and immaterial. If we consider wherein consists the Being of a Body, and wherein, that of a Soul, and then compare them, the matter will be clear.
We cannot come to an apprehension of their Beings, but by considering their primary passions and properties, whereby they make discovery of themselves. The first and primary affection of a body *(as is rightly observed) is that extension of parts whereof it is compounded, and a capacity of Division, upon which, as upon the fundamental mode, ⟨p. 16⟩the particular Dimensions (that is, the figures) and the local motion do depend.
- *Philosophical Essay, •. 2. §. 2. p. 39.
Again, for the Being of our Souls, if we reflect upon our selves we shall find, that all our knowledge of them resolves into this, that we are Beings conscious to our selves of several kinds of cogitations; that by our outward senses we apprehend bodily things present, and by our imagination we apprehend things absent. And that we oft recover into our apprehension things past and gone, and upon our perception of things, we find our selves variously affected.