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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.
11. We deny that the Soul knows nothing now, but by Phantasms and Images.2 For it knows it self, its own nature and powers, of which it cannot possibly feign or form any image or representation. What form, shape, or figure, can the fancy of a man cast his own Soul into to help him to understand its nature?
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- 2Intellectus incorporea & immaterialia contemplatur, ut Deum & intelligentias, sed haec nullo modo in phantasiam cadunt, cum sunt extra limites corporeatum viriam Conimb. de Anima, lib. 3. cap. 8. Q. 8.
And what shall we say of its understanding during an ecstasy or Rapture? Doth the Soul know nothing at such a time? Doth a dull Torpor seize and benumb its intellectual powers? No, no; the Understanding is never more bright, clear, apprehensive, and perfect, than when the Body in an Ecstasy is laid aside as to any use or assistance of the mind. The Soul for that space uses not the Bodies assistance, as the very words Ecstasy, and Rapture, convince us.
And what shall we say of its understanding during an ecstasie or Rapture? Doth the Soul know nothing at such a time? Doth a dull Torpor seize and benumb its intellectual powers? No, no; the Understanding is never more bright, clear, apprehensive, and perfect, than when the Body in an Ecstasie is laid aside as to any use or assistance of the mind. The Soul for that space uses not the Bodies assistance, as the very words Ecstasie, and Rapture, convince us.