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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.
(3.) The humane Soul is neither wholly tied to the body as the brutal soul is, nor created without inclination to a body, as Angels are; but loves, and inclines to it, though it can both live and act without it, when it is parted from it at death. The proof of this Assertion, and the Reasons why God created it with such an inclination, will in their proper place be more fully spoken to in the following Discourse. All that I shall add is, that in this, as well as in some other respects, our souls are made a little lower than the Angels, but when they are unclothed of the body, and have received it again in a new Edition, a Spiritual body; then they shall be [Greek or Hebrew], equal unto Angels in the way and manner of life and action.
(3.) The humane Soul is neither wholly tyed to the body as the brutal soul is, nor created without inclination to a body, as Angels are; but loves, and inclines to it, though it can both live and act without it, when it is parted from it at death. The proof of this Assertion, and the Reasons why God created it with such an inclination, will in their proper place be more fully spoken to in the following Discourse. All that I shall add is, that in this, as well as in some other respects, our souls are made a little lower than the Angels, but when they are uncloathed of the body, and have received it again in a new Edition, a Spiritual body; then they shall be 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, equal unto Angels in the way and manner of life and action.
Thus I have as briefly as I can, dispatched the first thing propounded, viz. The Nature of the Soul, in the explication of these seven particulars. It is a Substance, a Vital, Spiritual and immortal Substance, a Substance endued with Understanding, Will, Affections, and an Inclination to the body. And now we are come to the
Thus I have as briefly as I can, dispatcht the first thing propounded, viz. The Nature of the Soul, in the explication of these seven particulars. It is a Substance, a Vital, Spiritual and immortal Substance, a Substance endued with Vnderstanding, Will, Affections, and an Inclination to the body. And now we are come to the