A Treatise Of The Soul Of Man

Book Summary

The publisher of this book utilises modern printing technologies as well as photocopying processes for reprinting and preserving rare works of literature that are out-of-print or on the verge of becoming lost. This book is one such reprint. Subtitle: 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 Human General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1698 Original Publisher: Printed by J.D. for Tho. Parkhurst Subjects: Soul Immortality Religion / Eschatology Religion / Theology Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 45 A Siparatc Soul immediately capable ofBlejfednefs. Inference 1 1. THE Soul of Man being a Subftance, and not depending in its being on die Body, or any other fellow-creature', There can be no reafonontheSoufs account, vhj ittblefiednt(t fhmld. be delayed till t he Re fare ft Ion of the Body. Tis. a great miftake, (and 'tis well 'tisfo) that the Soul is capable only of facial Glory, or a Bleflednefs in pajtner- fhip with- the Body: And that it can neither exert its own powers, nor enjoy its own happinefs intheabfence of 'the body. The opinion of a fleeping Interval took its rife from rhis errour, ( as it is ufual for one miftake to beget another ) they conceived the Soul to be-fo dependent upon the Body, zit lead in all Us operations, that when death rends it from the Body, it' muft needs be left as in a fwoon, or fleep ; ut able to exert its proper powers, or enjoy that felicity, wliich we afcribe to it in its ftate of reparation. But certainly its fubftantial Nature ...

Book Details