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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.
(2.) We find here the best account that ever was given of the Origin of the Soul of man, or whence it came, and from whom it derives its Being. O, what a dust and pother have the disputes and contests of Philosophers raised about this matter! which is cleared in a few words in this Scripture. *God breathed into his Nostrils the breath of life, and Man became a living Soul: which plainly speaks it to be the immediate effect of Gods creating power. Not a result from the matter; no, no, results flow è sinu materiae, out of the bosom of matter, but this comes ex halitu divino, from the inspiration of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh: But this is a spirit descending from the Father of spirits. God formed it, but not out of any preexistent matter, whether Celestial or Terrestrial; much less out of himself, as the *Stoics speak; but out of nothing. An high-born Creature it is, but no particle of the Deity. The indivisible and immutable Essence of God is utterly repugnant to such Notions: and therefore they speak not strictly and warily enough, that are bold to call it a Ray, or an Emanation from God.
(2.) We find here the best account that ever was given of the Origin of the Soul of man, or whence it came, and from whom it derives its Being. O, what a dust and pudder have the disputes and contests of Philosophers raised about this matter! which is cleared in a few words in this Scripture. *God breathed into his Nostrils the breath of life, and Man became a living Soul: which plainly speaks it to be the immediate effect of Gods creating power. Not a result from the matter; no, no, results flow è sinu materiae, out of the bosom of matter, but this comes ex halitu divino, from the inspiration of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh: But this is a spirit descending from the Father of spirits. God formed it, but not out of any praeexistent matter, whether Coelestial or Terrestrial; much less out of himself, as the *Stoicks speak; but out of nothing. An high-born Creature it is, but no particle of the Deity. The indivisible and immutable Essence of God is utterly repugnant to such Notions: and therefore they speak not strictly and warily enough, that are bold to call it a Ray, or an Emanation from God.