Psychosophia, or, Natural & divine contemplations of the passions & faculties of the soul of man, in three books / Nicholas Mosley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mosley, Nicholas, 1923-2017, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soul--Early works to 1800.

Soul.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 pages)

Other Title:

Psychosophia

Place of Publication:

London, England : Humphrey Mosley, 1653.

Summary:

In this ensuing treatise thou hast for thy benefit intended a discourse upon the soul of man; if thou beest inflamed with a desire of knowledge, learn to know thy own soul, especially the intellectual faculty of the soul, by which we are that we are, but which we are distinguished from beasts, and by which we are made like unto God. In one part of this discourse is handled the state of the soul in the body of man. The soul is considered as the Formal part of a man; form and matter making one composition; and this takes up the first book, being of the physical science of the soul. In the second part is handled the state of the soul of man, not so much in its essence of form, as in its operations and faculties abstracted from matter and use of the body which is a more spiritual and divine condition, whether we consider the soul abstracted from the body in those purer working of the intellect, the soul still quickening and remaining in the body; or consider it as the body lying in the grave, and the soul totally and really separated it. In the third part is touch the state of the soul after death in a body glorified, when this corruption shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal have put on immortality; wherein as the body so the soul is in the highest pitch of bliss and glory that ever it was, or can be capable of, therein being resotred to the likeness of his maker. The first book then is natural or physical, the second is metaphysical, and the third is theological.

Contents:

Of the soul's original

Of the attributes of the soul

Of the definition of the soul

Of the unity of the soul

Of the vegetative faculty, with its operations and effects

Of the sensitive faculty with its operations external

Of the three internal senses (viz.) Common sense, phantasie, memory

Of the appetitive faculty, and the motive to a place

Of the affections and passions of the soul

Of the intellectual faculties of the soul

Of the speculative part of the soul

Of the knowledge which the soul hath of angels and saints departed

Of the knowledge we have of God and his attributes

Of the knowledge and will in God

Chapter I

Of the organs of the body, and the exercise of the sensitive faculties of the soul by them in the state of glory

Of the knowledge of the soul by intuitive intellection, or beatifical vision.

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