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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.
VIII.8 The Soul of man hath in the very frame and nature of it an inclination to the body. There is in it a certain Pondus or inclination which naturally bends or sways it towards matter, or a body. There are three different Natures found in living Creatures, viz. 1. The Brutal. 2. The Angelical. 3. The Humane.
- 8And an inclination and love to the Body.
(1.) The Soul of a Brute is wholly confined to, and dependent on the matter or body with which it is united. It is dependent on it both in esse, & in operari. In its being and working; it is but a material form, which rises from, and perisheth with the body. The Soul of a Brute, 1(saith a great Person) is no other than a fluid bodily Substance, the more lively, subtle, and refined part of the blood (called spirit) quick in motion, and from the Arteries by the branches of the Carotids carried to the Brain, and from thence conveyed to the Nerves and Muscles moves the whole frame and mass of the body, and receiving only certain weak impressions from the Senses, and of short continuance; hindered and obstructed of its work and motion, vanishes into the soft Air.
(1.) The Soul of a Brute is wholly confined to, and dependent on the matter or body with which it is united. It is dependent on it both in esse, & in operari. In its being and working; it is but a material form, which rises from, and perisheth with the body. The Soul of a Brute, 1(saith a great Person) is no other than a fluid bodily Substance, the more lively, subtil, and refined part of the blood (called spirit) quick in motion, and from the Arteries by the branches of the Carotides carried to the Brain, and from thence conveyed to the Nerves and Muscles moves the whole frame and mass of the body, and receiving only certain weak impressions from the Senses, and of short continuance; hindred and obstructed of its work and motion, vanishes into the soft Air.