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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 IV.
IIIIF God be the immediate Creator and Former of the Soul of Man, Then sin must needs involve the most unnatural evil in it, as it is an horrid violation of the very law of nature. No title can be so full, so absolute, as that which Creation gives. How clear is this in the light of reason? If God created my Soul, then my Soul had once no Being at all: That it had still remained nothing, had not the pleasure of its Creator chosen and called it into the Being it hath, out of the millions of mere possible Beings. For as there are millions of possible Beings, which yet are nothing; so there are millions of possible Beings which never shall be at all. So that since the pleasure and power of God, was the only fountain of my Being, he needs must be the rightful owner of it. What can be more his own, than that whose very Being flowed merely from him; and which had never been at all, had he not called it out of nothing.
IIIIF God be the immediate Creator and Former of the Soul of Man, Then sin must needs involve the most unnatural evil in it, as it is an horrid violation of the very law of nature. No title can be so full, so absolute, as that which Creation gives. How clear is this in the light of reason? If God created my Soul, then my Soul had once no Being at all: That it had still remained nothing, had not the pleasure of its Creator chosen and called it into the Being it hath, out of the millions of meer possible Beings. For as there are millions of possible Beings, which yet are nothing; so there are millions of possible Beings which never shall be at all. So that since the pleasure and power of God, was the only fountain of my Being, he needs must be the rightful owner of it. What can be more his own, than that whose very Being flowed meerly from him; and which had never been at all, had he not called it out of nothing.