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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.
(1.) First, some affirm it to be by way of †Traduction, or natural generation from the Parents to the Child. This opinion is very ancient, Tertullian and divers of the Western Fathers closed with it, as judging it the best expedient to solve the difficulties of the souls taint and defilement with Original sin. But Antiquity is no pass-port for errors. The grey hairs of opinions (as one well notes) are then honourable, when they are found in the way of truth. Dr. Brown tells us he should rather incline to the Creation,2 than the Traduction of the Soul, though either opinion (saith he) will consist well enough with Religion; did not one Objection haunt him, and this is a Conclusion from the equivocal and monstrous productions by unnatural Copulations: As of a Man and Beast; for if the Soul of man (saith he) be not transmitted and transfused in the Seed, why are not those productions merely Beasts, but have also an impression and tincture of reason in as high a ⟨p. 32⟩measure as it can evidence it self in those improper Organs?
(1.) First, some affirm it to be by way of †Traduction, or natural generation from the Parents to the Child. This opinion is very ancient, Tertullian and divers of the Western Fathers closed with it, as judging it the best expedient to solve the difficulties of the souls taint and defilement with Original sin. But Antiquity is no pass-port for errours. The gray hairs of opinions (as one well notes) are then honourable, when they are found in the way of truth. Dr. Brown tells us he should rather incline to the Creation,2 than the Traduction of the Soul, though either opinion (saith he) will consist well enough with Religion; did not one Objection haunt him, and this is a Conclusion from the equivocal and monstrous productions by unnatural Copulations: As of a Man and Beast; for if the Soul of man (saith he) be not transmitted and transfused in the Seed, why are not those productions meerly Beasts, but have also an impression and tincture of reason in as high a