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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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5. Fifthly, The great price with which they were redeemed and purchased, speaks their dignity and value. No wise man will purchase a trifle at a great price, much less the most wise God. Now the redemption of every Soul stood in on less than the most precious Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ: 1 Pet. 1.18, 19. You know (saith the Apostle there) that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold— But with the precious blood of Christ, as a Lamb without blemish and without spot. All the gold and silver in the world was no Ransom for one Soul; nay, all the blood of the Creatures, had it been shed as a Sacrifice to the glory of Justice, or even the blood which is most dear to us, as being derived from our own, I mean the blood of our dear Children, even of our first-born, the beginning of our strength, which usually have the strength of affection: I say, none of this could purchase a pardon for the smallest sin that ever any Soul committed, much less was it able to purchase the Soul it self, Micah 6.6, 7. Thousands of rams, and ten thousand rivers of oil, or our first-born are no ransom to God for the sin of the Soul. It is only the precious Blood of Christ that is a just ransom or counterprice, as it's called, Matth. 20.28.
5. Fifthly, The great price with which they were redeemed and purchased, speaks their dignity and value. No wise man will purchase a trifle at a great price, much less the most wise God. Now the redemption of every Soul stood in on less than the most precious Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ: 1 Pet. 1.18, 19. You know (saith the Apostle there) that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold— But with the precious blood of Christ, as a Lamb without blemish and without spot. All the gold and silver in the world was no Ransom for one Soul; nay, all the blood of the Creatures, had it been shed as a Sacrifice to the glory of Justice, or even the blood which is most dear to us, as being derived from our own, I mean the blood of our dear Children, even of our first-born, the beginning of our strength, which usually have the strength of affection: I say, none of this could purchase a pardon for the smallest sin that ever any Soul committed, much less was it able to purchase the Soul it self,