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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.
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.
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 sh•ws it to be no corporeal, but a Spiritual and immaterial Substance.
- *Understand i• negatively, that the Soul is not in the parts of the body per parts, part in one part. and part in another▪ seeing it is indivisible, and hath no parts.Understand i• negatively, that the Soul is not in the parts of the body per partes, part in one part. and part in another▪ seeing it is indivisible, and hath no parts.
(3.) As it derives its Being from the Father of Spirits in a peculiar way, and rejoiceth in its spiritual properties; so at death it returns to that great Spirit, from whence it came. It is not annihilated or resolved into soft Air, or sucked up again by the Element of Fire, or catched back again into the soul of the World, as some have dreamed;