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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.
To this faculty or power of Understanding, my thoughts and conscience do belong: The former, to my speculative, the latter to my practical Understanding. My thoughts are ⟨p. 45⟩all formed in my mind or Understanding in innumerable multitudes and variety. By it I can think of things present, or absent; visible, or invisible; of God, or my self; of this, or the world to come.
To my Understanding also, belongs my Conscience, a noble, Divine, and awful power. By which I summon and judge my self, as at a solemn Tribunal, bind and loose, condemn and acquit my self and actions, but still with an eye and respect to the judgment of God. Hence are my best comforts, and worst terrors.
To my Understanding also, belongs my Conscience, a noble, Divine, and awfull power. By which I summon and judge my self, as at a solemn Tribunal, bind and loose, condemn and acquit my self and actions, but still with an eye and respect to the judgment of God. Hence are my best comforts, and worst terrors.
This Understanding of mine is the director and guide of my Will: That is as the Counsellor; This, as the Prince. It freely chooseth and refuseth as my Understanding directs and suggests to it. The members of my Body, and passions of my Soul are under its Dominion. The former are under its absolute command, the latter under its suasions and insinuations, though not absolutely and always with effect and success.
This Understanding of mine is the director and guide of my Will: That is as the Counsellor; This, as the Prince. It freely chuseth and refuseth as my Understanding directs and suggests to it. The members of my Body, and passions of my Soul are under its Dominion. The former are under its absolute command, the latter under its suasions and insinuations, though not absolutely and always with effect and success.