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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.
PROP. V. The Soul is not so maimed and prejudiced by its separation from the Body, but that it both can and doth live, and act without it: and performs the acts of Cogitation and Volition, without the aid and ministry of the Body.
I Know it is objected by them that assert the Souls sleeping till the Resurrection, that though its essence be not destroyed by death, yet its Operations are obstructed by the want and absence of the Body, its Tool and Instrument, and thus they form their Objection.
I Know it is objected by them that assert the Souls sleeping till the Resurrection, that though its essence be not destroy'd by death, yet its Operations are obstructed by the want and absence of the Body, its Tool and Instrument, and thus they form their Objection.
All that the Soul understands, 1it understands by Species, that is, the Images of things which are first formed in the Fantasy: ⟨p. 206⟩2As when we would conceive the nature of an House, a Ship, a Man or a Beast; we first form the Image or Species thereof in our fancy, and then exercise our thoughts about it: But this depending upon bodily Organs and Instruments, the separated Soul can form no such Images. It hath no such innate Species of its own, but comes into the World an abrasa tabula, white paper; and being deprived by separation of the help of Senses and Phantasms, it consequently understands nothing.
All that the Soul understands,