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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.
The Wit, the Pupil of the Souls clear eye, And in mans world, the only shining Star, Looks in the Mirror of the Fantasy Where all the gatherings of the Senses are. And after by discoursing to and fro Anticipating and Comparing things, She doth all universal natures know, And all Effects into their Causes brings. When she rates things, and moves from ground to ground, The name of Reason she obtains by this; But when by reason she the truth hath found, And standeth sixth, she Understanding is. When her Assent she lightly doth incline, To either part she is Opinion light; But when she doth by principles define A Certain truth, she hath true Judgements fight. ⟨p. 23⟩And as from Senses, Reasons work doth spring, So many Reasons Understanding gain; And many Understandings Knowledge bring, And by much Knowledge Wisdom we obtain.
THe Wit, the Pupil of the Souls clear eye, And in mans world, the only shining Star, Looks in the Mirroir of the Phantasie Where all the gatherings of the Senses are. And after by discoursing to and fro Anticipating and Comparing things, She doth all universal natures know, And all Effects into their Causes brings. When she rates things, and moves from ground to ground, The name of Reason she obtains by this; But when by reason she the truth hath found, And standeth fixt, she Understanding is. When her Assent she lightly doth incline, To either part she is Opinion light; But when she doth by principles define A Certain truth, she hath true Judgements fight. ⟨p. 23⟩And as from Senses, Reasons work doth spring, So many Reasons Vnderstanding gain; And many Vnderstandings Knowledge bring, And by much Knowledge Wisdom we obtain.
VI.6 God hath endued the Soul of man not only with an Understanding to discern and direct, but also with a Will to govern, moderate and over-rule the actions of Life.