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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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And by the way, this may smartly check the pride and arrogance of Souls, who dare take it upon them to teach God, as we interpretatively do in our censures of his works, and murmurs at his disposals of us. Shall that Soul, which is the product of his Wisdom and Counsel, dare to instruct or counsel its Maker? but that by the bye. You see there is a transcendent dignity and worth in the Soul of man above all other Beings in the World, by the peculiar way of its production into the number of created Beings: no wise man deliberates long, or calls a counsel about ordinary matters, much less the All-wise God.
And by the way, this may smartly check the pride and arrogance of Souls, who dare take it upon them to teach God, as we interpretatively do in our censures of his works, and murmures at his disposals of us. Shall that Soul, which is the product of his Wisdom and Counsel, dare to instruct or counsel its Maker? but that by the bye. You see there is a transcendent dignity and worth in the Soul of man above all other Beings in the World, by the peculiar way of its production into the number of created Beings: no wise man deliberates long, or calls a counsel about ordinary matters, much less the All-wise God.
2. Secondly, The Soul hath in it self an intrinsic worth and excellency worthy of that Divine Original whence it sprang: view it in its noble faculties and admirable powers, and it will appear to be a Creature upon which God hath laid out the riches of his Wisdom and Power.
2. Secondly, The Soul hath in it self an intrinsick worth and excellency worthy of that Divine Original whence it sprang: view it in its noble faculties and admirable powers, and it will appear to be a Creature upon which God hath laid out the riches of his Wisdom and Power.