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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.
A Spirit it is, and flows by way of Creation, immediately from the Father of Spirits; but yet 'tis a spirit of another, inferior rank, and order.
A Spirit it is, and flows by way of Creation, immediately from the Father of Spirits; but yet 'tis a spirit of another, inferiour rank, and order.
(3.) We have also the account of the way and manner of its infusion into the body, viz. by the same breath of God which gave it its being. It is therefore a rational, scriptural, and justifiable expression of S. Augustine, creando infunditur, & infundendo creature; It is infused in creating, and created in infusing. Though Dr. Brown *too slightingly calls it a mere Rhetorical Antimetathesis. Some of the Fathers, as Justine, Irenaens, and Tertullian were of opinion, That the Son of God assumed a humane shape at this time, in which afterward he often appeared to the Fathers, as a Prelude to his true and real incarnation; and took Dust or Clay in his hands, out of which he formed the body of man, according to the pattern of that body in which he appeared: And that being done, he afterwards by breathing, infused the •oul into it. But I, rather think, it's an Anthropopathy, or usual figure in speech, by which the spirit of God stoops to the imbecility of our understanding's. He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. Heb. lives. But this plural word [Greek or Hebrew] notes rather the twofold life of man, in this world, and in that to come; or the several faculties and powers belonging to one and the same soul, viz. the intellective, sensitive, and vegetative Offices thereof; than that there are more souls than one, essentially differing, in one and the same man; for that, as *Aquinas truly saith, is impossible. We cannot trace the way of the spirit, or tell in what manner it was united with this clod of Earth. But it is enough, that he who formed it, did also unite or marry it to the body. This is clear, it came not by way of natural resultancy from the body, but by way of inspiration from the Lord. Not from the warm bosom of the Matter, but from the breath of its Maker.