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 ...
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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 ...
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Flavel, John, 1630?-1691.
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London :: Printed for Francis Tyton ...,
1685.
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Soul -- Early works to 1800.
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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A39675.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 1, 2024.
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§. 3.
There can be no more difficulty in conceiving of a sepa∣rate Soul, than there is in conceiving of an Angel. For it is certain, that a separated Soul, and an Angel, are the live∣liest and clearest representations of each other, in the whole number of created Beings.* 1.1 Some make the difference be∣twixt 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 An∣gel (saith another) is a compleat and perfect Soul, a Soul an imperfect and incompleat Angel.
The separate Soul doth not become an Angel by putting off the Body; they are, and still will be divers Species, but in this they agree, that in their common nature they are both Spirits, that is, Immaterial Substances, endued with Vnderstand∣ing, Will, and active power. And I know not why the one should not be as intelligible as the other; or if there be any
advantage, the Soul certainly must have it; seeing our ac∣quaintance with Souls is much more intimate than with An∣gels. Angels indeed have larger Capacities, and have no natural inclination to be embodied as Souls have, but their common Nature, as they are Spirits, is the same: And if we can conceive of one, we may also of the other.
Notes
* 1.1
Dr. More's Im∣mortality of the Soul, lib. 2. cap. 17. § 4. & 8.