A39675:384
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.
Two things are objected against this Argument.
1I. That some particular persons have denied this Doctrine, as Epicurus, &c. and by Argument maintained the contrary.
- 1Object. 1.
1To which I answer, That though they have done so, yet (1.) this no way shakes the Argument from the consent of Nations, because some few persons have denied it: we truly say the Earth is Spherical, though there be many Hills and Risings in it. If Democritus put out his own eyes, must we therefore say all the World is blind?
- 1Sol.
(2) It is worth thinking on, whether they that have questioned the Immortality of the Soul, have not rather made it the matter of their option and desire, than of their Faith and Persuasion. We distinguish Atheists into three Classes, such as are so in Practice, in Desire, or in Judgment; but of the former sorts there may be found multitudes, to one that is so in his settled judgment.