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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.
1And Being both a vital and Spiritual Substance, I must needs conclude it to be an immortal Substance. For in such a pure spiritual nature, as my Soul is, there can be found no seeds or principles of Death. Where there is no composition, there will be no dissolution. My Body indeed having so many jarring humours, mixed elements, and contrary qualities in it, must needs fail and dye at last. But my Soul was formed for immortality, by the simplicity and spirituality of its nature. No sword can pierce it from without, nor opposition can destroy it from within. Man cannot, and God will not.
- 1An Immortal Substance
1And being an immortal Spirit, fitted and framed to live for ever, I find that God hath answerably endued and furnished it with an Understanding, Will, and Affections, whereby it is capable of being wrought upon, by the spirit in the way of Grace and Sanctification in this world; in order to the enjoyment of God its chief happiness, in the world to come.
1And being an immortal Spirit, fitted and framed to live for ever, I find that God hath answerably endued and furnished it with an Vnderstanding, Will, and Affections, whereby it is capable of being wrought upon, by the spirit in the way of Grace and Sanctification in this world; in order to the enjoyment of God its chief happiness, in the world to come.
- 1endued with Understanding, Will, and Affections;endued with Vnderstanding, Will, and Affections;