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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.
Long have my thoughts bended towards this great and excellent Subject, and many earnest desires I have had, (as I believe all thinking persons must needs have) to know ⟨image 4⟩what I shall be when I breathe not. But when I had engaged my Meditations about it, two great rubs opposed the farther progress of my thoughts therein: Namely, I. The difficulty of the Subject I had chosen; And, II. The distractions of the times in which I was to write upon it.
I. As for the Subject, such is the subtlety and sublimity of its nature, and such the knotty Controversies in which it is involved, that it much better deserves that inscription than Minerva's Temple at Sam did, *Never did any Mortal reveal me plainly.
I. As for the Subject, such is the subtilty and sublimity of its nature, and such the knotty Controversies in which it is involv'd, that it much better deserves that inscription than Minerva's Temple at Saum did, *Never did any Mortal reveal me plainly.
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1It is but little that the most clear and sharp-sighted do discern of their own Souls now in the state of composition, and what then can we positively and distinctly know of the life they live in the state of Separation? The darkness in which these things are involved, doth greatly exercise, even the greatest Wits; and frequently elude and frustrate the most generous attempts. Many great Scholars,