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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 X.VII
- VIIThe Soul an immortal Substance.
IS the Soul of Man, a Vital, Spiritual, and immortal Substance? Then it is no wonder, that we find the resentments and impressions of the world to come, naturally engraven upon the Souls of men, all the world over. These impressions and sentiments of another life after this, do as naturally and necessarily spring out of an immortal Nature, as branches spring out of the body of a Tree, or feathers out of the body of a Bird. So fairly and firmly are the characters and impressions of the life to come, sealed upon the immortal spirits of all men, that no man can offer violence to this truth, but he must also do violence to his own Soul, and unman himself by the denial of it. Who feels not a cheeriness to spring from his absolving, and an horror from his accusing Conscience? Neither of which could rise from any other principle than this. We ar• Beings conscious to our selves of a future State, and that our Souls do not vanish, when our breath doth: That we cease not to be, when we cease to breathe.
IS the Soul of Man, a Vital, Spiritual, and immortal Substance? Then it is no wonder, that we find the resentments and impressions of the world to come, naturally ingraven upon the Souls of men, all the world over. These impressions and sentiments of another life after this, do as naturally and necessarily spring out of an immortal Nature, as branches spring out of the body of a Tree, or feathers out of the body of a Bird. So fairly and firmly are the characters and impressions of the life to come, sealed upon the immortal spirits of all men, that no man can offer violence to this truth, but he must also do violence to his own Soul, and unman himself by the denial of it. Who feels not a cheariness to spring from his absolving, and an horrour from his accusing Conscience? Neither of which could rise from any other prinple than this. We ar• Beings conscious to our selves of a future State, and that our Souls do not vanish, when our breath doth: That we cease not to be, when we cease to breathe.