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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.
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 manife••e 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.
From the substantial Nature of the Soul, which we have proved to be a Being distinct from the Body, and subsisting by it self, we are informed, That great is the difference betwixt the death of a Man, and the death of all other creatures in the world. Their souls depend on, and perish with their bodies; but ours neither result from them, nor perish with them. My Body is not a Body, when my Soul hath forsaken it; but my Soul will remain a Soul, when this body is crumbled into dust. Men may live like beasts, a mere sensual life; yea, in some sense, they may dye like beasts, a stupid death: but in this there will be found a vast difference, Death kills both parts of the Beasts, destroys matter and form; it toucheth only one part of Man, it destroyeth the Body, and only dislodgeth the Soul, but cannot destroy it.
FRom the substantial Nature of the Soul, which we have proved to be a Being distinct from the Body, and subsisting by it self, we are informed, That great is the difference betwixt the death of a Man, and the death of all other creatures in the world. Their souls depend on, and perish with their bodies; but ours neither result from them, nor perish with them. My Body is not a Body, when my Soul hath forsaken it; but my Soul will remain a Soul, when this body is crumbled into dust. Men may live like beasts, a meer sensual life; yea, in some sense, they may dye like beasts, a stupid death: but in this there will be found a vast difference, Death kills both parts of the Beasts, destroyes matter and form; it toucheth only one part of Man, it destroyeth the Body, and only dislodgeth the Soul, but cannot destroy it.