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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. X. That Gracious Souls separate from the Body, do attain to the perfection of knowledge with more ease than they attained any small degree of knowledge, whilst they dwelt in the Body.
Great are the Inconveniences and Prejudices, under which Souls labour in their Pursuits, after knowledge in this life. Veritas in puteo, Truth lies deep. And it is hard, even with much labour, pains, and study, to pump up one clear Notion; for the Soul cannot now act as it would, but is fain to act as it can, according to the Limitations and Permissions of the Body, to which it is confined; by heedful Observations, and painful Searches; it is forced to deduce one thing from another, and is too often deceived and imposed upon by such tedious, and manifold Connections.
GReat are the Inconveniences and Prejudices, under which Souls labour in their Pursuits, after knowledge in this life. Veritas in puteo, Truth lies deep. And it is hard, even with much labour, pains, and study, to pump up one clear Notion; for the Soul cannot now act as it would, but is fain to act as it can, according to the Limitations and Permissions of the Body, to which it is confined; by heedful Observations, and painful Searches; it is forced to deduce one thing from another, and is too often deceived and imposed upon by such tedious, and manifold Connections.
Beside, Truth now is forced in compliance with our weakness, and distance from the Fountain, to descend from Heaven under Veils, Shadows, and Umbrages, thereby to contract some kind of Affinity with our Fancies and exterior Senses first, that so it may with more advantage transmit it self to our Understandings.