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Pneumatologia, a treatise of the soul of man
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 applied, 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 ...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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
MATTH. 16.26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Difficult Duties need to be enforced with powerful Arguments: in the 24th verse of this Chapter, our Lord presseth upon his Disciples the deepest and hardest duties of self-denial, acquaints them upon what terms they must be admitted into his service, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me.
DIfficult Duties need to be enforced with powerful Arguments: in the 24th verse of this Chapter, our Lord presseth upon his Disciples the deepest and hardest duties of self-denial, acquaints them upon what terms they must be admitted into his service, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me.
This hard and difficult Duty he enforceth upon them by a double Argument, viz. from 1. The vanity of all sinful shifts from it, v. 25. 2. The value of their Souls which is imported in it, v. 26. They may shift off their Duty to the loss of their Souls, or save their Souls by the loss of such trifles. If they esteem their Souls above the World, and can be content to put all other things to the hazard for their Salvation, making account to save nothing but them by Christianity; then they come up to Christs terms, and may warrantably and boldly call him their Lord and Master; and to sweeten this choice to them, he doth in my Text balance the Soul and all the World, weighing them one against the other, and shows them the infinite odds and disproportion betwixt them, What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?