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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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O what a Divine spark is the Soul of man! well might Christ prefer it in dignity to the whole World.
3. Thirdly, The worth of a Soul may be gathered and discerned from its subjective capacity and ability both of Grace and Glory. It is capable of all the graces of the Spirit, of being filled with the fullness of God, Eph. 3.19. to live to God here, and with God for ever. What excellent Graces do adorn some Souls! How are all the rooms richly hanged with Divine and costly Hangings, that God may dwell in them! This makes it like the carved works of the Temple, overlaid with pure Gold; here is Glory upon Glory, a new Creation upon the old; in the inmost parts of some Souls is a spiritual Altar erected with this Inscription, Holiness to the Lord: Here the Soul offers up it self to God in the sacred flames of Love, and here they sacrifice their vile affections, devoting them to destruction to the glory of their God: here God walks with delight, even a delight beyond what he takes in all the stately Structures and magnificent adorned Temples in the whole World, Isa. 66.1, 2.
3. Thirdly, The worth of a Soul may be gathered and discerned from its subjective capacity and hability both of Grace and Glory. It is capable of all the graces of the Spirit, of being silled with the fulness of God, Eph. 3.19. to live to God here, and with God for ever. What excellent Graces do adorn some Souls! How are all the rooms richly hanged with Divine and costly Hangings, that God may dwell in them! This makes it like the carved works of the Temple, overlaid with pure Gold; here is Glory upon Glory, a new Creation upon the old; in the inmost parts of some Souls is a spiritual Altar erected with this Inscription, Holiness to the Lord: Here the Soul offers up it self to God in the sacred flames of Love, and here they sacrifice their vile affections, devoting them to destruction to the glory of their God: here God walks with delight, even a delight beyond what he takes in all the stately Structures and magnificent adorned Temples in the whole World,