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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.
The Soul of man is the Prize about which Heaven and ⟨p. 371⟩Hell contend: the great design of Heaven is to save it, and all the plots of Hell to ruin it. Man is a Borderer betwixt both Kingdoms, he lives here upon the Confines of the spiritual and material World; and therefore Scaliger fitly calls him, Utriusque mundi nexus, one in whom both worlds meet: his body is of the earth, earthly; his Soul the off-spring of a Deity, heavenly. It is then no wonder to find such tugging and pulling this way and that way, upward and downward, such •allies from Heaven to rescue and save it, such incursions from Hell to captivate and ruin it.
The Soul of man is the Prize about which Heaven and ⟨p. 371⟩Hell contend: the great design of Heaven is to save it, and all the plots of Hell to ruine it. Man is a Borderer betwixt both Kingdoms, he lives here upon the Confines of the spiritual and material World; and therefore Scaliger fitly calls him, Vtriusque mundi nexus, one in whom both worlds meet: his body is of the earth, earthly; his Soul the off-spring of a Deity, heavenly. It is then no wonder to find such tugging and pulling this way and that way, upward and downward, such •allies from Heaven to rescue and save it, such incursions from Hell to captivate and ruine it.
The infinite Wisdom of God hath laid the plot and design for its Salvation by Christ in so great depth of counsel, that the Angels of Heaven are astonished at it, and desire to pry into it. Christ in pursuance of this eternal project came from Heaven professedly to seek and to save lost Souls, Luke 19.10. He compares himself to a good Shepherd who leaveth the ninety nine to seek one lost sheep, and having •ound it, brings it home upon his shoulders, rejoicing that he hath found it,