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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.
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From the several parts and branches of this Description of the Soul, we may gather the choice Fruits which naturally grow upon them, in the following Inferences and Deductions of truth and duty. For we may say of them all, what the Historian doth of Palestine, that there is nihil infructuosum, nihil sterile; No Branch or Shrub is barren or unfruitful. Let us then search it Branch by Branch, and,
FRom the several parts and branches of this Description of the Soul, we may gather the choice Fruits which naturally grow upon them, in the following Inferences and Deductions of truth and duty. For we may say of them all, what the Historian doth of Palestine, that there is nihil infructuosum, nihil sterile; No Branch or Shrub is barren or unfruitful. Let us then search it Branch by Branch, and,
Inference. I.I
- IThe Soul a substantial Being. Tanta praerogativa manifest test•tur ipsius animam, penes quam •atio principatus est, non esse materialem & caducam, sed s•perioris cujusdam atque eminentis naturae, à conditione reliquarum animarum longē distantem. Co•imb. Disp. de Anima separ. p. 584.The Soul a substantial Being. Tanta praerogativa manifee testtur ipsius animam, penes quam atio principatus est, non esse materialem & caducam, sed sperioris cujusdam atque eminentis naturae, à conditione reliquarum animarum longē distantem. Coimb. Disp. de Anima separ. p. 584.