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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
MATTH. 16.26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole… › Doctrine 1: DOCT. I.
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1. And first, The invaluable worth of Souls appears from the manner of their Creation. They were created immediately by God, as hath been proved, and that not without the deliberation of the whole Trinity, Gen. 1.26. Let us make man. For the production of other Creatures, it was enough to give out the word of his command, Let there be light, let the earth and the waters bring forth; but when he comes to man, then you have no fiat, ••t there he, but he puts his own hand immediately to it, as to the Master-piece of the whole Creation; yea, a counsel is called about it, Let us, implying ⟨p. 364⟩the just consultation and deliberation of all the Persons in the Godhead about it, that our hearts might be raised to the expectation of some extraordinary work to follow. great Counsels and wise Debates being both the forerunners and foundations of great Actions and Events to ensue thereupon. Thus Elihu in Job 35.10. None saith, Where is God my makers? and David in Psal. 149 2. Let Israel rejoice in his makers: In both places the word is plural. The consultation here is only amongst the Divine P•rsons, no Angels are called to this Council-table, the whole matter was to be conducted by the Wisdom, and effected by the Power of God; and therefore there was no need to consult with any but himself, the wisdom of Angels being from him: but this great Council shows what an excellent Creature was now to be produced, and the excellency of that creature Man, was principally in his Soul; for the bodies of other Creatures, which were made by the word of his command, are as beautiful, elegant, and neat as the body of man; yea, and in some respects more excellent. The Soul then was that rare piece which God in so condescending an expression tells us was created with the deliberation of a Godhead: those great and excellent Persons laid their heads, as it were, together, to project its Being.
1. And first, The invaluable worth of Souls appears from the manner of their Creation. They were created immediately by God, as hath been proved, and that not without the deliberation of the whole Trinity,