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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.
The Breath, and Soul of Man are two distinct things. His Breath is not his Soul, nor his Soul his Breath, but the Nexus or bond that couples and unites his Soul and body in a personal union. The Body hath no life in it self, but its life results from its union with the Soul; James 2.26. this union is maintained by the breath of our nostrils, which upon that account is here called the breath of life. 1Breath is an act of life, proceeding from the Souls union with its Body, and ending with the dissolution of it. Life is continued by its respiration, and ended by its expiration. Whilst we live, and whilst breath is in our bodies, are terms Synonymous.
The Breath, and Soul of Man are two distinct things. His Breath is not his Soul, nor his Soul his Breath, but the Nexus or bond that couples and unites his Soul and body in a personal union. The Body hath no life in it self, but its life results from its union with the Soul; Iames 2.26. this union is maintained by the breath of our nostrils, which upon that account is here called the breath of life. 1Breath is an act of life, proceeding from the Souls union with its Body, and ending with the dissolution of it. Life is continued by its respiration, and ended by its expiration. Whilest we live, and whilst breath is in our bodies, are terms Synonymous.
- 1What breath is
That little quantity of air, which we thus breath in and out at our nostrils, is more to us, than all the three Regions of air, which fill up the vast space between earth and heaven. It is in a sense, our life.