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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.
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.
Let these two properties of a Soul and Body be compared, and upon the first view of a considering mind it will appear, that Divisibility is not Apprehension, or Judgment, or Desire, or Discourse: That to cut a body into several parts, or put it into several shapes, or bring it to several motions, or mix it after several ways, will never bring it to apprehend, or desire. No man can think the combining of Fire, and Air, and Water, and Earth, should make the lump of it to know or comprehend what is done to it, or by it. We see manifestly, that upon the division of the body, the Soul remains entire, and undivided. It is not the loss of a Leg, or Arm, or Eye, that can maim the Understanding, or the Will, or cut off the affections.
Nay, it pervades the body it dwells in, and is whole in the whole, and whole in every *part, which it could never do, if it self were material. Yea, it comprehends in its understanding, the body or matter in which it is lodged; and more than that, it can and doth form conceptions of pure spiritual and immaterial Beings, which have no Dimensions or Figures; all which shows it to be no corporeal, but a Spiritual and immaterial Substance.