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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. The power or ability of Cogitation: Thoughts are properly the actings and agitations of the mind, or any actual operation of the understanding. They are the musings of the mind, which are acted in the speculative part of the understanding. It is observable that the 2Hebrew word [Greek or Hebrew] suach which is used for meditation, or thinking, signifies both to think and to speak in the mind. When the understanding or mind revolves and meditates the things that come into it, that very Meditation is an inward speaking, or a hidden word in the heart. Deut. 15.9. Beware lest there be a thought in thy wicked heart, as some render it: In the Hebrew it is [Greek or Hebrew] a word in thy heart: so Matth. 9.3, 4. [Greek or Hebrew], they spake within themselves, i. e. they thought in their hearts. 3The Objects presented to the mind are ⟨p. 21⟩the Companions, with whom our hearts talk and converse.
*1. The power or ability of Cogitation: Thoughts are properly the actings and agitations of the mind, or any actual operation of the understanding. They are the musings of the mind, which are acted in the speculative part of the understanding. It is observable that the 2Hebrew word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 suach which is used for meditation, or thinking, signifies both to think and to speak in the mind. When the understanding or mind revolves and meditates the things that come into it, that very Meditation is an inward speaking, or a hidden word in the heart. Deut. 15.9. Beware lest there be a thought in thy wicked heart, as some render it: In the Hebrew it is a word in thy heart: so