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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.
1The Soul seems to vanish and dye, when it leaves the Body, for when it hath struggled as long as it can, to keep its possession in the Body, and at last is forced to depart; we can perceive nothing but a puff of breath, which immediately vanishes into air, and is lost.
1The Soul seems to vanish and dye, when it leaves the Body, for when it hath strugled as long as it can, to keep its possession in the Body, and at last is forced to depart; we can perceive nothing but a puff of breath, which immediately vanishes into air, and is lost.
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1We cannot perceive, therefore it is nothing but what we do, and can perceive, viz. a puff of vanishing breath! By this argument the being of the Soul in the Body is as questionable, as after its departure out of the Body: for we cannot discern it by sight in the Body, yea, by this Argument, we may as well deny the existence of God and Angels, as of Souls, for it is a spiritual and invisible being, as they are, our gross senses are incapable of discerning Spirits, which are immaterial and invisible substances.
1We cannot perceive, therefore it is nothing but what we do, and can perceive, viz. a puffe of vanishing breath! By this argument the being of the Soul in the Body is as questionable, as after its departure out of the Body: for we cannot discern it by sight in the Body, yea, by this Argument, we may as well deny the existence of God and Angels, as of Souls, for it is a spiritual and invisible being, as they are, our gross senses are incapable of discerning Spirits, which are immaterial and invisible substances.
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