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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.
The inspired Pen-man gives us in this context a Compendious Narrative of the Worlds Creation, relating more generally the rude, inform, and indigested Chaos; and then more particularly the specificating and diversifying of the various beautiful Beings thence educed, by the motion of the Spirit of God upon the face of the Waters.
When the first Matter was (strictly) created out of Nothing,1 the Spirit (as Moses excellently expresses it, chap. 1. vers. 2.) hovered, or moved over it as a bird over her Eggs, and as it were by way of Incubation, cherishing and influencing it, did thereby draw forth all the creatures into their several forms, and distinct particular natures, wherein we now with delight and admiration behold them.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew] Motus, commotus, agitatus fuit: no• s•mplicem motum denotat, sed ejusm•di quam Columba peragit, cum ovis ad […] c•udendum pullos inc•bat. Rab. Sol.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Motus, commotus, agitatus fuit: no• s•mplicem motum denotat, sed ejusm•di quam Columba peragit, cum ovis ad 〈…〉 c•udendum pullos inc•bat. Rab. Sol.