A39675:1397
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.
If he should gain the whole world,] There is a plain Hyperbole ⟨p. 362⟩in this Phrase; for it never was, nor will be the lot of any man to be the sole Owner and Possessor of the whole world *But suppose all the power, pleasure, wealth, and honour of the whole World were bid and offered in exchange for a mans Soul; what a dear purchase would it be at such a rate! What were this, saith one, but to win Venice, and then be hanged at the gate of it? As that man acts like a mad man, that goes about to purchase a treasure of gold with the loss of his life; for life being lost, what is all the gold in the world to him? he can have no enjoyment of it, or comfort in it: so here, what is all the world, or as many worlds as there are creatures in it, when the Soul is lost? if he gain this.
If he should gain the whole world,] There is a plain Hyperbole ⟨p. 362⟩in this Phrase; for it never was, nor will be the lot of any man to be the sole Owner and Possessor of the whole world *But suppose all the power, pleasure, wealth, and honour of the whole World were bid and offer'd in exchange for a mans Soul; what a dear purchace would it be at such a rate! What were this, saith one, but to win Venice, and then be hang'd at the gate of it? As that man acts like a mad man, that goes about to purchase a treasure of gold with the loss of his life; for life being lost, what is all the gold in the world to him? he can have no enjoyment of it, or comfort in it: so here, what is all the world, or as many worlds as there are creatures in it, when the Soul is lost? if he gain this.
- *Hypotheticâ •âc hyperbole amissionis salutis aeternae atrocitas summa notatur. S. Glassius. Non magis juvabitur q•àm qui acquirit Venetias, ipse verò susp•ndatur ad portam. Pareus in loc.