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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
MATTH. 16.26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole… › Doctrine 1: DOCT. I.
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 mind passes through all the works of Creation, it views the several creatures on earth, considers the fabric, use, and beauty of Animals, the signatures of Plants, penetrating thereby into their Nature and Virtues: it views the vast Ocean, and the large train of Causes laid together in all these things, for the good of man, by God whose Name it reads in the most diminutive creature it beholds on earth.
The mind passes through all the works of Creation, it views the several creatures on earth, considers the fabrick, use, and beauty of Animals, the signatures of Plants, penetrating thereby into their Nature and Virtues: it views the vast Ocean, and the large train of Causes laid together in all these things, for the good of man, by God whose Name it reads in the most diminutive creature it beholds on earth.
It can in a moment mount it self from Earth to Heaven, view the face thereof, describe the motions of the Sun in the Ecliptic, calculate Tables for the motions of the Planets and fixed Stars, invent convenient Cycles for the computations of Time, foretell at a great distance the dismal Eclipses of the Sun and Moon, to the very Dig••, and the portentous Conjunctions of the Planets, to the very minute of their Ingress: these are the pleasant employments of the Understanding.
It can in a moment mount it self from Earth to Heaven, view the face thereof, describe the motions of the Sun in the Ecliptick, calculate Tables for the motions of the Planets and fixed Stars, invent convenient Cycles for the computations of Time, foretel at a great distance the dismal Eclipses of the Sun and Moon, to the very Dig••, and the •ortentous Conjunctions of the Planets, to the very minute of their Ingress: these are the pleasant imployments of the Understanding.