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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.
But there seems to be a decay upon our Souls in our old Age,1 and decays argue and imply corruption and are so many steps and tendencies towards the death and dissolution thereof. The experience of the whole world shows us how the Apprehensions, Judgments, Wit, and Memory of old Men fail, even to that degree, that they become children again in respect of the abilities of their minds: their Souls only serving as it were to salt their Bodies, and keep them from putrefaction for a few days longer.
But there seems to be a decay upon our Souls in our old Age,1 and decaies argue and imply corruption and are so many steps and tendencies towards the death and dissolution thereof. The experience of the whole world shews us how the Apprehensions, Judgments, Wit, and Memory of old Men fail, even to that degree, that they become children again in respect of the abilities of their minds: their Souls only serving as it were to salt their Bodies, and keep them from putrefaction for a few days longer.
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'Tis a great mistake,1 there is not the least decay upon the Soul, no time makes any change upon the essence of the Soul: all the alteration that is made, is upon the Organs and Instruments of the Body which decay in time, and become inept and unserviceable to the Soul.
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