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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.
II. God created and infused it into the body with an inherent inclination and affection to it.1 The nature of the Soul and Body are vastly different, there is no affinity or similitude betwixt them▪ but it is in this case, as in that of Marriage. Two persons of vastly different Educations, Constitutions and Inclinations, coming under Gods Ordinance, into the nearest relation to each other, find their affections knit and endeared by their relation to a degree beyond that which results from the union of blood: So it is here. Whence this affection rises, in what acts it is discovered, and for what reason implanted, will be at large discovered in a distinct branch of the following Discourse, to which it is assigned. Mean while I find my self concerned to vindicate what hath been here asserted from the Arguments which are urged against the immediate Creation and infusion of the Soul, and in defence of the opinion of its Traduction from the Parents. To conceal, or dissemble these Arguments and Objections,2 would be but a betraying of the truth I have here asserted, and give occasion for some jealousy, that they are unanswerable. To come then to an issue, and first,
II. God created and infused it into the body with an inherent inclination and affection to it.1 The nature of the Soul and Body are vastly different, there is no affinity or similitude betwixt them▪ but it is in this case, as in that of Marriage. Two persons of vastly different Educations, Constitutions and Inclinations, coming under Gods Ordinance, into the nearest relation to each other, find their affections knit and endeared by their relation to a degree beyond that which results from the union of blood: So it is here. Whence this affection rises, in what acts it is discovered, and for what reason implanted, will be at large discovered in a distinct branch of the following Discourse, to which it is assigned. Mean while I find my self concerned to vindicate what hath been here asserted from the Arguments which are urged against the immediate Creation and infusion of the Soul, and in defence of the opinion of its Traduction from the Parents. To conceal, or dissemble these Arguments and Objections,