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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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Our actions are considerable two ways, physically and morally; in the first sense they are transient, in the last permanent: a word is past as soon as spoken, but yet it must and will be recalled and brought into the Judgment of the great Day, Matth. 12.36. whatever therefore a man shall speak, think, or do, once spoken, thought, or done, it becomes eternal, and abides for ever. Now, what is it that puts so great a difference betwixt humane and brutal actions, but the excellent Nature of the reasonable Soul? 'Tis this which stamps immortality upon humane actions, and is at once a clear proof both of the immortality and dignity of the Soul of man, above all other Creatures in this World.
Our actions are considerable two ways, physically and morally; in the first sense they are transient, in the last permanent: a word is past assoon as spoken, but yet it must and will be recalled and brought into the Judgment of the great Day, Matth. 12.36. whatever therefore a man shall speak, think, or do, once spoken, thought, or done, it becomes eternal, and abides for ever. Now, what is it that puts so great a difference betwixt humane and brutal actions, but the excellent Nature of the reasonable Soul? 'Tis this which stamps immortality upon humane actions, and is at once a clear proof both of the immortality and dignity of the Soul of man, above all other Creatures in this World.
7. Seventhly, The contention of both Worlds, the strife of Heaven and Hell about the Soul of man, speaks it a most precious and invaluable Treasure.
The Soul of man is the Prize about which Heaven and ⟨p. 371⟩