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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.
My Soul is also a vital Substance.1 It is a principle of life to my Body. It hath a life in it self, and quickens my body therewith. My Soul is the spring of all the actions and motions of life which I perform. It hath been an error ⟨p. 44⟩taken in from my childhood, That sense is performed in the outward Organs, or members of my Body, as Touching in the Hand, seeing in the Eye, Hearing in the Ear, &c. in them, I say, and not only by them. As if nothing were required to make Sense, but an Object and an Organ. No, no, it is not my Eye that seeth, nor my Ear that heareth, nor my Hand that toucheth, but my Soul in and by them performs all this. Let but an Apoplex hinder the operations of my Soul in the Brain, and of how little use are my Eyes, Ears, Hands or Feet to me? My life is originally in my Soul, and secondarily by way of Communication in my Body. So that I find my Soul to be a vital, as well as a spiritual Substance.
My Soul is also a vital Substance.1 It is a principle of life to my Body. It hath a life in it self, and quickens my body therewith. My Soul is the spring of all the actions and motions of life which I perform. It hath been an errour ⟨p. 44⟩taken in from my childhood, That sense is performed in the outward Organs, or members of my Body, as Touching in the Hand, seeing in the Eye, Hearing in the Ear, &c. in them, I say, and not only by them. As if nothing were required to make Sense, but an Object and an Organ. No, no, it is not my Eye that seeth, nor my Ear that heareth, nor my Hand that toucheth, but my Soul in and by them performs all this. Let but an Apoplex hinder the operations of my Soul in the Brain, and of how little use are my Eyes, Ears, Hands or Feet to me? My life is originally in my Soul, and secondarily by way of Communication in my Body. So that I find my Soul to be a vital, as well as a spiritual Substance.
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