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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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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.
The Apostle therefore in Gal. 6.7. compares the actions of men in this world to seed sown, and tells us of everlasting fruits we shall reap from them in the next life: they have the same respect to a future account that seed hath to the Harvest; he that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity, (i. e.) everlasting disappointment and misery, Prov. 22.8. and they that now sow in tears, shall then reap in joy, Psal. 126.5. every gracious action is the seed of joy, and every sinful action the seed of sorrow; and this makes the great difference betwixt the actions of a rational Soul, and those done by Beasts: and if it were not so, man would then be wholly swayed by sense and present things, as the beasts are, and all Religion would vanish with this distinction of actions.
The Apostle therefore in Gal. 6.7. compares the actions of men in this world to seed sown, and tells us of everlasting fruits we shall reap from them in the next life: they have the same respect to a future account that seed hath to the Harvest; he that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity, (i. e.) everlasting disappointment and misery,