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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.
By all which we see that as it is elevated too high on the one hand, when it is made a particle of God himself; not only the Creature, but a part of God, as *Plutarch, and †Philo Judaeus, and others have termed it: (a Spirit it is, but of another and inferior kind) So it is degraded too low, when it is affirmed to be matter, though the purest, finest and most subtle in nature; which approacheth nearest to the nature of a spirit. A Spirit it is, as much as an Angel is a Spirit, though it be a spirit of another species. This is the name it is known by throughout the Scriptures. In a word, it is void of mixture and composition, there are no jarring qualities, compounded Elements, or divisible parts in the Soul, as there are in bodies, but it is a pure, simple, invisible and indivisible Substance, which proves its spirituality, and brings us to the fourth particular, viz.
By all which we see that as it is elevated too high on the one hand, when it is made a particle of God himself; not only the Creature, but a part of God, as *Plutarch, and †Philo Iudaeus, and others have term'd it: (a Spirit it is, but of another and inferiour kind) So it is degraded too low, when it is affirmed to be matter, though the purest, finest and most subtle in nature; which approacheth nearest to the nature of a spirit. A Spirit it is, as much as an Angel is a Spirit, though it be a spirit of another species. This is the name it is known by throughout the Scriptures. In a word, it is void of mixture and composition, there are no jarring qualities, compounded Elements, or divisible parts in the Soul, as there are in bodies, but it is a pure, simple, invisible and indivisible Substance, which proves its spirituality, and brings us to the fourth particular, viz.
- *Anima autem mentis particeps facta, non solum Dei opus est, verum etiam pars; neque ab •o, sed de eo & ex eo facta. Plut. de Qu. Platon.