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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.
1Solution. §. 1.
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1. It must be acknowledged not only very difficult, but an impossible task for a Soul immersed in matter, and so unacquainted with its own Nature and Powers, as it is in its embodied state, to gain a perfect, clear, and adequate Conception of what it shall be in the World to come. Expect not then a perfect image, much less any magnificent draught of this excellent Creature: This would be the same thing as to go about to depaint the Sun in its Glory, Motions, and Influences with a Pencil. I shall think I have done enough, if I can but give you any umbrage or faint representation of this sublime and Spiritual Being, and the manner of its subsisting and acting out of the body. For seeing it is by nature invisible, and in most of its actions (whilst it is in the state of composition) it makes the same use of the body and natural Spirits, that a Scribe doth of his Pen and Ink, ⟨p. 243⟩without which he cannot decipher the Characters which are formed in his fancy: it must needs be difficult to conceive, how it subsists and acts in its separate state.