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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.
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.
Now who can compute the value of that Blood? such was the worth of the Blood of Christ, which by the communication of properties, is truly styled the Blood of God; that one drop of it is above the estimations of men and Angels; and yet before the Soul of the meanest man or woman in the World could be redeemed, every drop of his Blood must be shed; for no less than his Death could be a price for our Souls. Hence then we evidently discern an invaluable worth ⟨p. 370⟩in Souls. A whole Kingdom is taxed when a King is to be ransomed, the delight and darling of Gods Soul must dye, when our Souls are to be redeemed. O the worth of Souls!
Now who can compute the value of that Blood? such was the worth of the Blood of Christ, which by the communication of properties, is truly stiled the Blood of God; that one drop of it is above the estimations of men and Angels; and yet before the Soul of the meanest man or woman in the World could be redeemed, every drop of his Blood must be shed; for no less than his Death could be a price for our Souls. Hence then we evidently discern an invaluable worth ⟨p. 370⟩in Souls. A whole Kingdom is taxed when a King is to be ransomed, the delight and darling of Gods Soul must dye, when our Souls are to be redeemed. O the worth of Souls!
6. Sixthly, This evidences the transcendent dignity and worth of Souls, that Eternity is stamped upon their actions, and theirs only of all the Beings in this World: the acts of Souls are immortal, as their Nature is, whereas the actions of other Animals having neither moral goodness or moral evil in them, pass away as their Beings do.
6. Sixthly, This evidences the transcendent dignity and worth of Souls, that Eternity is stampt upon their actions, and theirs only of all the Beings in this World: the acts of Souls are immortal, as their Nature is, whereas the actions of other Animals having neither moral goodness or moral evil in them, pass away as their Beings do.