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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.
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, Psal. 139.15, 16. [Greek or Hebrew] acupictus. sum, I am embroidered, painted, or flourished as with a needle: We render it, curiously wrought. Whatsoever Beauty and comely proportion God hath bestowed by creation upon it,2 'tis all answerable to that excellent Idea, or model before conceived in his mind and purpose. All this care and cost was bestowed upon the ⟨p. 5⟩body of man, which when all is done, is but the Case in which that inestimable Jewel, the Soul, was to be lodged. This therefore I must lay aside, and come to the more noble Subject,
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 elegancy of the body of man, Psal. 139.15, 16. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 acupictus. sum, I am embroidered, painted, or flourished as with a needle: We render it, curiously wrought. Whatsoever Beauty and comely proportion God hath bestowed by creation upon it,2 'tis all ••swerable to that excellent Idea, or model before conceived in his mind and purpose. All this care and cost was bestowed upon the