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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.
To your hands I first tender it. It becomes your Property, not only as a Debt of Justice, the fulfilling of a Promise made you long since upon your joint and earnest desires for the publication of it; but as an acknowledgement of the many Favours I have received from you, to one of you I stand obliged in the Bond of Relation, and under the sense of many Kindnesses, beyond whatever such a degree of Relation can be supposed to exact.
To your hands I first tender it. It becomes your Property, not only as a Debt of Justice, the fulfilling of a Promise made you long since upon your joynt and earnest desires for the publication of it; but as an acknowledgment of the many Favours I have received from you, to one of you I stand obliged in the Bond of Relation, and under the sense of many Kindnesses, beyond whatever such a degree of Relation can be supposed to exact.
You have here a succinct account of the Nature, Faculties, and Original of the Soul of Man, as also of its infusion into the ⟨image 7⟩Body by God, without entitling himself to the guilt and sin resulting from that their Union.
You have here a succinct account of the Nature, Faculties, and Original of the Soul of Man, as also of its infusion into the ⟨image 7⟩Body by God, without intitling himself to the guilt and sin resulting from that their Union.
You will also find the breath of your Nostrils to be the Nexus, Tie, or Bond, which holds your Souls and Bodies in a personal Union; and that whilst the due Crasis and Temperament of the Body remains, and Breath continues; your Souls hang as by a weak and slender thread, over the state of a vast Eternity in Heaven or in Hell: Which will inform you both of the value of your breath, and the best way of improving it, whilst you enjoy it.