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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.
Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?] The question aggravates the sense,1 and amplifies the loss and damage of the man that sells his Soul for the whole world. There is no recompense in all the world for the hazard or danger of the Soul one hour, nor would a man that understands what Soul and Eternity are, put it into danger for ten thousand worlds, much less for a penny, yea, for nothing, as many do; but to barter and exchange it for the world, ⟨p. 363⟩to take any thing in lieu of it▪ this is the height of madness. The way of buying in former times was not by money, but by the Exchange of one Commodity for another:2 and to this custom Brugensis thinks this Phrase is allusive. Now what commodity is found in all the world, or who that is not blinded by the God of this world, can think that the whole world it self, if all the rocks in it were rocks of Diamonds, and the Seas and rivers were liquid Gold; is a commodity of equivalent worth to his own Soul? Hence two Notes rise naturally.
Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?] The question aggravates the sense,1 and amplifies the loss and damage of the man that sells his Soul for the whole world. There is no recompence in all the world for the hazard or danger of the Soul one hour, nor would a man that understands what Soul and Eternity are, put it into danger for ten thousand worlds, much less for a penny, yea, for nothing, as many do; but to barter and exchange it for the world, ⟨p. 363⟩to take any thing in lieu of it▪ this is the height of madness. The way of buying in former times was not by money, but by the Exchange of one Commodity for another:2 and to this custom Brugensis thinks this Phrase is allusive. Now what commodity is found in all the world, or who that is not blinded by the God of this world, can think that the whole world it self, if all the rocks in it were rocks of Diamonds, and the Seas and rivers were liquid Gold; is a commodity of equivalent worth to his own Soul? Hence two Notes rise naturally.