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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.
But this is a pure creature of fancy; for, (1.) no Soul in the world is conscious to it self of such a preexistence: nor can remember when it was owner of any other habitation than that it now dwells in. (2.) Nor doth the Scripture give us the least hint of any such thing. Some indeed would catch hold of that expression, Gen. 2. 2. God ⟨p. 34⟩rested the seventh day from all the works which he had made: And it is true, he did so, the work of Creation was finished and sealed up, as to any new species or kind of creatures to be created, no other sort of souls will ever be created, than that which was at first; But yet God still creates individual Souls (My father worketh hitherto, and I work) of the same kind and nature with Adams Soul. And (3.) for their detrusion into these bodies as a punishment of their sins in the former state, if we speak of sin in Individuals or particular persons, the Scripture mentions none, either original or actual, defiling any Soul in any other way but by its union with the body. Preexistence therefore is but a Dream.
But this is a pure creature of fancy; for, (1.) no Soul in the world is conscious to it self of such a praeexistence: nor can remember when it was owner of any other habitation than that it now dwells in. (2.) Nor doth the Scripture give us the least hint of any such thing. Some indeed would catch hold of that expression, Gen. 2. 2. God ⟨p. 34⟩rested the seventh day from all the works which he had made: And it is true, he did so, the work of Creation was finished and sealed up, as to any new species or kind of creatures to be created, no other sort of souls will ever be created, than that which was at first; But yet God still creates individual Souls (My father worketh hitherto, and I work) of the same kind and nature with Adams Soul. And (3.) for their detrusion into these bodies as a punishment of their sins in the former state, if we speak of sin in Individuals or particular persons, the Scripture mentions none, either original or actual, defiling any Soul in any other way but by its union with the body. Praeexistence therefore is but a Dream.