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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.
1Trees, Animals and such like, were not created immediately out of nothing, as the Soul of Man was; but the Earth was the preexistent matter out of which they were produced, by the word of Gods blessing and power; but mans Soul was immediately breathed into him by God, and had no preexistent matter at all. And besides, all humane souls being of one species, have therefore one and the same Original: The Soul of the poorest child is of equal Dignity with the Soul of Adam. And if we consult Job 33.4. we shall find Elihu giving us there the same account, and almost in the same words, of the Original of his Soul, that Moses in my Text gives us of the Original of Adams Soul. The Spirit of God hath formed me, and the Breath of the Almighty hath given me Life.
1Trees, Animals and such like, were not created immediately out of nothing, as the Soul of Man was; but the Earth was the praeexistent matter out of which they were produced, by the word of Gods blessing and power; but mans Soul was immediately breathed into him by God, and had no praeexistent matter at all. And besides, all humane souls being of one species, have therefore one and the same Original: The Soul of the poorest child is of equal Dignity with the Soul of Adam. And if we consult Iob 33.4. we shall find Elihu giving us there the same account, and almost in the same words, of the Original of his Soul, that Moses in my Text gives us of the Original of Adams Soul. The Spirit of God hath formed me, and the Breath of the Almighty hath given me Life.
- 1Sol. 1.
But it is evident,1