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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.
The Chaldee renders it a Speaking Soul. And indeed it deserves a remark, that the ability of Speech is conferred on no other Soul but mans. Other creatures have apt and excellent Organs; Birds can modulate the Air, and form it into sweet delicious notes, and charming sounds; but no creature except man, whose soul is of an heavenly nature and extraction, can articulate the sound, and form ⟨p. 6⟩it into words, by which the notions and sentiments of one Soul, are in a noble, apt, and expeditious manner, conveyed to the understanding of another Soul. And indeed, what should any other creature do with the faculty or power of speech, without a principle of Reason to guide and govern it? It is sufficient to them that they discern each others meaning by dumb signs, much after the manner that we traded at first with the Indians: But speech is proper only to the rational or living Soul. However we render it a living, a rational, or a speaking Soul; it distinguisheth the soul of man from all other Souls.
The Chaldee renders it a Speaking Soul. And indeed it deserves a remarque, that the ability of Speech is conferred on no other Soul but mans. Other creatures have apt and excellent Organs; Birds can modulate the Air, and form it into sweet delicious notes, and charming sounds; but no creature except man, whose soul is of an heavenly nature and extraction, can articulate the sound, and form ⟨p. 6⟩it into words, by which the notions and sentiments of one Soul, are in a noble, apt, and expeditious manner, conveyed to the understanding of another Soul. And indeed, what should any other creature do with the faculty or power of speech, without a principle of Reason to guide and govern it? It is sufficient to them that they discern each others meaning by dumb signs, much after the manner that we traded at first with the Indians: But speech is proper only to the rational or living Soul. However we render it a living, a rational, or a speaking Soul; it distingisheth the soul of man from all other Souls.