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 ...

A Synopsis, or View of the Soul in the state of Composition, in six Particulars; in this first Table of Life, viz.

The Soul of Man is considered in this Treatise two ways,

• First, in the state of Composition.
• Secondly, In the state of Separation.

• 1. In its general Nature, a Substance proved to be so,

  1. By its Creation.

  Page 11

  2. By its single Existence.

  p. 11

  3. By its S••••tentation of the Body.

  p. 12

  4. By the subjecting of Habits and Affections in it.

  p. 13

• 2. In its Es∣sential Pro∣perties, which are six.
  • 1. It is a Vital substance, whose life is not from it self, but

    1. It receives it from God.

    p. 13

    2. Communicates it to the Body.

    p. 13

  • 2. An Immortal substance proved by eight Arguments.

    1. The simplicity of its Nature.

    p. 96

    2. The Veracity of God, in his promises and threats.

    p. 98

    3. The Consent of all Nations.

    p. 100

    4. Its everlasting habits, which are inseparable.

    p. 103

    5. The Peculiar dignity of Man.

    p. 105

    6. His desires of Immortality.

    p. 107

    7. Its returns after death.

    p. 108

    8. The Absurdities clogging the Negative.

    p. 109

  • 3. Endued with Understand∣ing, to which belong

    1. Thoughts to the Speculative.

    2. Conscience to the Practical understanding.

    p. 20

  • 4. And a Will, which glorieth in
    • 1. Its Liberty.

      p. 23

    • And 2. Its Dominion both

      1. Despotical.

      p. 24

      2. Political.

      p. 24

  • Yet both restrain∣ed in some parti∣culars.

    1. As to the Body.

    p. 25

    2. As to the thoughts.

    p. 26

    3. As to the Conscience.

    p. 27

  • 5. Affections and Passions where is shewed

    1. Their rise in the Soul.

    p. 28

    2. Their use to the Soul.

    p. 29

  • 6. Its inclination to the Body which differenceth it from other Spirits.

    p. 29

• 3. Its Excellent Original about which we have
  • 1. Errors refuted that it was not

    1. By Seminal Traduction.

    p. 31

    2. By Angelical Procreation.

    p. 32

    3. By Co••taneous Creation.

    p. 33

  • 2. Its true Original asserted, ••y immediate Creation.

    p. 34

  • 3. Objections against this Assertion answered.

    p. 37, ••••

• 4. Its Union with the Body, viz.
  • 1. That God infused it, yet infused not sin into it.

    p. 41

  • 2. Knit it to the Body by our breath, about which 4 things are opened.

    1. What breath is.

    p. 70

    2. Its Instruments.

    p. 71

    3. Its feebleness.

    p. 73

    4. Its Improvements.

    p. 74

• 5. Its love to the Body both in the
  • 1. Evidences of it, viz.

    1. Its Cares about it.

    p. 136

    2. Fears of it.

    p. 137

    3. Sympathy with it.

    p. 138

    4. Reluctancies at death.

    p. 139

    5. Inclinations to Re-union.

    p. 140

  • And 2 Causes.
    • 1. Propriety in it as its Instrument

      1. Of Pleasure.

      p. 143

      2. Of Service.

      p. 143

    • 2. Consuetude with it as its antient Companion.

      p. 142

    • 3. Partnership, both in Redemption and in Glory.

      p. 143

• 6. The Necessity of its separation grounded upon
  • 1. The Law of God whose equity is cleared, with respect to

    1. The Godly.

    p. 169

    2. The Ungodly.

    p. 169

  • 2. The Providence of God moulding our frame suitably to the Law of our Mortality.

    p. 169