A39675:78
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.
However, the baseness of the matter, and coarseness of the stuff, serves to set off the admirable skill of the most wise and powerful Architect; who out of such mean and despicable materials, hath fashioned so exact and elegant a piece. The Lord God formed man out of the Dust.
However, the baseness of the matter, and courseness of the stuffe, serves to set off the admirable skill of the most wise and powerful Architect; who out of such mean and despicable materials, hath fashioned so exact and elegant a piece. The Lord God formed man out of the Dust.
The Lord God] The name of God is here set down at full,* to set forth the dignity of man, the subject matter wrought upon, as some conceive.
- *[Greek or Hebrew] Dominus Deus. Nomen Dei hic plenum est, propter hominis dignitatem. Nachm.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Dominus Deus. Nomen Dei hic plenum est, propter hominis dignitatem. Nachm.
Formed] Fashioned,1 or curiously moulded, and figured it. The Hebrew verb primarily signifies to press, compress or squeeze together, and by a Metalepsis by pressing and compressing to mould or fashion, as th•• •otter doth his Clay. The Psalmist useth another word to express the. artificial elegance of the body of man,