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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.
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.
VI.6 God hath endued the Soul of man not only with an Vnderstanding to discern and direct, but also with a Will to govern, moderate and over-rule the actions of Life.
- 6Endued with a Will. What the Will is.
The Will is a faculty of the rational Soul, whereby a man either chooseth, or refuseth the things which the understanding discerns, and knows.
The Will is a faculty of the rational Soul, whereby a man either chuseth, or refuseth the things which the understanding discerns, and knows.
This is a very high and noble power of the Soul. The understanding seems to bear the same relation to the Will, as a grave Counsellor doth to a great Prince. It glories in two excellencies, viz, 1. Liberty. 2. Dominion.
This is a very high and noble power of the Soul. The understanding seems to bear the same relation to the Will, as a grave Counsellour doth to a great Prince. It glories in two excellencies, viz, 1. Liberty. 2. Dominion.