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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.
And both my Understanding and Will, I find to have great influence upon my Affections.
These Passions and Affections of my Soul are of great use and dignity. I find them as manifold as there are considerations of good and evil. They are the strong and sensible motions of my Soul, according to my apprehensions of good and evil. By them my Soul is capable of union with the highest good. By love and delight I am capable of enjoying God, and resting in him as the Centre of my Soul. This noble Understanding, Thoughts, Conscience, Will, Passions and Affections, are the principal faculties, acts, and powers of this my high and heaven-born Soul. And being thus richly endowed and furnished,
I find it could never rise out of matter,1 or come into my Body by way of natural generation; the Souls of Brutes that rise that way, are destitute of Understanding, Reason, Conscience, and such other excellent faculties and powers, as I find in mine own Soul. They cannot know, or love, or delight in God, or set their affections on things spiritual, invisible and eternal, as my Soul is capable to do; it was therefore created and infused immediately into this body of mine by the Father of Spirits, ⟨p. 46⟩and that with a strong inclination, and tender affection to my flesh, without which, it would be remiss and careless in performing its several Duties and Offices to it, during the time of its abode therein.
- 1created and infused with an inclination to the Body.