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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.
This is the dark side of death to all good men, and though it be not worth naming, in comparison with the dreadful consequents of death to all others, yet in it self it is terrible.
Separation is not natural to the Soul, which was created with an inclination to the Body:1 'tis natural indeed to clasp and embrace, to love and cherish its own Body; but to be divided from it is grievous and preternatural.
Separation is not natural to the Soul, which was created with an inclination to the Body:1 'tis natural indeed to clasp and embrace, to love and cherish its own Body; but to be divided from it is grievous and praeternatural.
- 1Cum separatio naturalis non sit, neque etiam violenta; sit consequ•ns▪ ut ex approbata Philosophorum approbatione, praeternaturalis esse dicatur. Conim•r.