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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.
(2.) An Angel is a Spirit free from a body, and created without an appetite or inclination to be embodied. The Stoics call the Angels [Greek or Hebrew], solely substances. And the Peripatetics, formas abstractas, abstract forms. They are Spirits free from the fetters and clogs of the ⟨p. 30⟩body. *An Angel is a perfect Soul, and an Humane Soul an imperfect Angel. Yet Angels have no such rooted disaffection and abhorrence of a body, but that they have, and can in a ready obedience to their Lords commands, and delight to serve him, assume bodies for a time, to converse with men in them; (i.e.) Aerial Bodies in the figure and shape of humane bodies. So we read, Gen. 18.2. three men (i.e. Angels in humane shape and appearance) stood by Abraham, and talked with him; and at Christs Sepulchre, Luke 24. There appeared two men in shining garments. But they abide in these bodies, as we do in an Inn for a night, or short season, they dwell not in them as our souls in those houses of flesh, which we cannot put on and off at pleasure, as they do; but as we walk in our garments, which we can put off without pain.
(2.) An Angel is a Spirit free from a body, and created without an appetite or inclination to be imbodied. The Stoicks call the Angels 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, souly substances. And the Peripateticks, formas abstractas, abstract forms. They are Spirits free from the fetters and cloggs of the ⟨p. 30⟩body. *An Angel is a perfect Soul, and an Humane Soul an imperfect Angel. Yet Angels have no such rooted disaffection and abhorrence of a body, but that they have, and can in a ready obedience to their Lords commands, and delight to serve him, assume bodies for a time, to converse with men in them; (i.e.) Aerial Bodies in the figure and shape of humane bodies. So we read,