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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.
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
II. Branch, viz. Its Original and Infusion.2
- 2The Souls Original and Descent.
I. As to its Original, I have described it to be immediately from God, in the way of Creation. An honour done to no other living Creature except Angels. The world hath been troubled with a great many extravagant and wild notions, about the Original of the Soul of man: (a certain Mark and Argument of its Apostasy from God). *Solinus writes of one who by a wound in the hinder part of his head, fell into such a degree of Ignorance and Oblivion, that he forgot his own name, and could not tell whether he had any name at all. But O! What a stunning blow did man receive by the Fall, that he should forget the very Author of his Being, and rather claim alliance, and derive the Being of his Soul from any thing, than God; though it bears the very Marks and Characters of its divine Author and Father, upon it! The principal errors about the Origin of the Soul (for that wild notion of Epicurus hath been laid so flat by the pens of many learned men, that it is a vanity to strike one blow more at it) may be reduced to these three heads.