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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.
The Dr. is too well acquainted with Philosophy, and a man of too much reason, to allow himself to think, that such a production, as he speaks of, hath two Natures and essential Forms in one body, as of a Man and a Horse. He knows that every entity hath but one specific Essence, and can have no more, except he will place one and the same thing under diverse Species in the predicament of substance. And as there cannot be two distinct forms, so neither can there be a mixtion of them in the Centaur or monstrous Birth: For ex duobus entibus per se, non fit unum •ns per se. But he confesseth this Objection was bred among the Weeds and Tares of his own Brain, (a rank soil no doubt) and I am pretty confident, he had weeded it out in his latter years; for I find this notion of Centaurs (that is half Horses, half Men) put into its proper place among his Vulgar Errors, Book 1. chap. 4. And so I suppose that rub being out of the way, he returned again to us.
The Dr. is too well acquainted with Philosophy, and a man of too much reason, to allow himself to think, that such a production, as he speaks of, hath two Natures and essential Forms in one body, as of a Man and a Horse. He knows that every entity hath but one specifical Essence, and can have no more, except he will place one and the same thing under diverse Species in the predicament of substance. And as there cannot be two distinct forms, so neither can there be a mixtion of them in the Centaure or monstrous Birth: For ex duobus entibus per se, non fit unum •ns per se. But he confesseth this Objection was bred among the Weeds and Tares of his own Brain, (a rank soil no doubt) and I am pretty confident, he had weeded it out in his latter years; for I find this notion of Centaures (that is half Horses, half Men) put into its proper place among his Vulgar Errours, Book 1. chap. 4. And so I suppose that rubb being out of the way, he returned again to us.
(2.) A Second opinion was, that they were procreated by Angels; and that which gave the ground (such as it is) to this Opinion, or Fancy, is the similitude or resemblance which is found betwixt Angels and the Souls of Men.