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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.
§. 3.
There can be no more difficulty in conceiving of a separate Soul, than there is in conceiving of an Angel. For it is certain, that a separated Soul, and an Angel, are the liveliest and clearest representations of each other, in the whole number of created Beings.1 Some make the difference betwixt them little more, than of a Sword in the Scabbard, from one that is naked. A Soul is but a Genius in the Body, and a Genius (or Angel) is a Soul out of a Body. An Angel (saith another) is a complete and perfect Soul, a Soul an imperfect and incomplete Angel.
There can be no more difficulty in conceiving of a separate Soul, than there is in conceiving of an Angel. For it is certain, that a separated Soul, and an Angel, are the liveliest and clearest representations of each other, in the whole number of created Beings.1 Some make the difference betwixt them little more, than of a Sword in the Scabbard, from one that is naked. A Soul is but a Genius in the Body, and a Genius (or Angel) is a Soul out of a Body. An Angel (saith another) is a compleat and perfect Soul, a Soul an imperfect and incompleat Angel.
- 1Dr. More's Immortality of the Soul, lib. 2. cap. 17. § 4. & 8. Bell. de Ascen. mentis.