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The Soul of Man

by John Flavel · 1630–1691

Published: 1685
Length: 175,979 words
Reading: ~12 hours
Divisions: 251

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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 ...

London Printed for Francis Tyton ... 1685.

Original spelling, as transcribed by the Text Creation Partnership.

Front matter
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Title page
DedicationTo the much honoured his dear Kinsman, Mr. Iohn Flavell, and Mr. Edward Crispe of London, Merchants; and…
Preface
Table of contentsA Synopsis, or View of the Soul in the state of Composition, in six Particulars; in this first Table of…

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PartUSE.
Inference 1Inference. I.
Inference 2A Separate Soul immediately capable of Blessedness. Inference II.
Inference 3Inference III.
Inference 4Inference IV.
Inference 5Inference V.
Inference 6Inference VI.
Inference 7Inference VII.
Inference 8Inference VIII.
Inference 9Inference IX.
Inference 10Inference X.
Inference 11Inference XI.
Inference 12Inference XII.
Inference 13Inference XIII.
Doctrine 2DOCT. II.
Inference 1Inference I.
Inference 2Inference II.
Inference 3Inference III.
Inference 4Inference IV.
Inference 5Inference V.
Inference 6Inference VI.
Inference 7Inference VII.
Inference 8Inference VIII.
Inference 9Inference IX.
Inference 10Inference X.
PartTEXT.
Doctrine
18 sections
PartTEXT.
Doctrine
4 inferences
PartUSE II. Of Reproof.
PartUSE III. Of Exhortation.
PartTEXT.
Doctrine 1DOCT I. How s…rong soever the Affections and inclinations of Souls are to the fleshly Tabernacles they now…
7 inferences
PartTEXT.
DoctrineDOCT. That righteous and holy Souls once separated from then Bodies by death, are immediately perfected in…
19 sections
SubpartThe USES of the Point.
6 inferences
PartUSE II.
Objection
1 solution
Argument 1Argument I.
3 sections
Argument 2Argument II.
Argument 3Argument III.
Argument 4Argument IV.
Argument 5Argument V.
Argument 6Argument VI.
Argument 7Argument VII.
Argument 8Argument VIII.
Argument 9Argument IX.
Argument 10Argument X.
Argument 11Argument XI.
Argument 12Argument XII.
Part1 Pet. iii. ver. 19. By which also he went and preached unto the SPIRITS in PRISON.
DoctrineDOCT.
20 sections
PartMATTH. 16.26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what…
Doctrine 1DOCT. I.
9 inferences
Doctrine 2DOCT. II.
29 sections
PartEPHES. 5.16. —Redeeming the time (or opportunity) because the days are evil.
DoctrineDOCTRINE. That the wisdom of a Christian is eminently discovered in saving and improving all opportunities…
6 arguments
ConclusionThe VSE.
Back matter
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