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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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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, Luke 15.5.
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, rejoycing that he hath found it, Luke 15.5.
Hell employs all its skill and policy, sets a-work all wiles and stratagems to destroy and ruin it: 1 Pet. 5.8. Your adversary the Devil goeth about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. The strong man armed gets the first possession of the Soul, and with all his forces and policies labours to secure it as his property, Luke 11.21. Christ raises all the spiritual Militia, the very posse Coeli, the Powers of Heaven to rescue it,