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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.
1But how come they then to be defiled and tainted with original sin? It's confessed God did not impure them, and the body cannot, for it being matter, cannot act upon a spirit; yea, of it self, it's a dead lump, and cannot act at all.
- 1Object. 4.
1What if this be one of those mysteries reserved for the world to come, about which we cannot in this state solve every difficulty that may be moved, Must we therefore deny its divine original? What if I cannot understand some mysteries,2 or answer some questions about the Hypostatical union of the two natures in the wonderful Person of our Emmanuel, must I therefore question whether he be [Greek or Hebrew], God-Man? We must remain ignorant of some things about our own souls, till we come into the condition of the spirits of just men made perfect. Mean time I think it much more our concernment to study how we may get sin out of our souls, than to puzzle our brains to find how it came into them.
1What if this be one of those mysteries reserved for the world to come, about which we cannot in this state solve every difficulty that may be moved, Must we therefore deny its divine original? What if I cannot understand some mysteries,2 or answer some questions about the Hypostatical union of the two natures in the wonderful Person of our Emmanuel, must I therefore question whether he be 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, God-Man? We must remain ignorant of some things about our own souls, till we come into the condition of the spirits of just men made perfect. Mean time I think it much more our concernment to study how we may get sin out of our souls, than to puzzle our brains to find how it came into them.