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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.
IVInference VI.
- IVA Vital Substance.
Moreover, if God have created our Souls vital Substances, to animate and act those bodies, How indispensably necessary is it, that a principle of spiritual life do quicken and govern that Soul, which quickens and governs our bodies, and all the members of them? Otherwise, though in a natural sense we have living souls, yet they are dead whilst they live.
MOreover, if God have created our Souls vital Substances, to animate and act those bodies, How indispensably necessary is it, that a principle of spiritual life do quicken and govern that Soul, which quickens and governs our bodies, and all the members of them? Otherwise, though in a natural sense we have living souls, yet they are dead whilst they live.
The Apostle in 1 Cor. 15.45, 46. compares the animal life we live, by the union of our souls and bodies, with the spiritual life we live, by the union of our souls with Jesus Christ. And so it is written (viz. in my Text) The first Man Adam was made a living Soul, the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. He opposes the animal to the spiritual life, and the two Adams from whom they come: And shows in both respects, the excellency of the Spiritual above the Animal life, not in point of Priority, for that which is natural, is before that which is spiritual, (and it must be so, because the natural Soul is the recipient Subject of the spirits quickening and sanctifying operations) but in point of dignity and real excellency. To how little purpose, or rather to what a dismal, and miserable purpose, are we made living souls, except the Lord from Heaven by his quickening power make us spiritual and holy Souls? The natural Soul rules and uses the body as