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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.
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, 2 Cor. 10.4, 5. And do Heaven and Earth thus contend, think you, de lana caprina, for a thing of nought? No, no, if there were not some singular and peculiar excellency and worth in mans Soul, both worlds would never tug and pull at this rate, which should win that Prize: It was a great Argument of the worth and excellency of Homer, that incomparable Poet, that seven Cities contended for the honour of his Nativity: [Greek or Hebrew] [Greek or Hebrew] Smyrna, Rhodes, Co•ophon, Salamis, Chins, Argos, and Athens were all at strife about one poor man, who should crown ⟨p. 372⟩themselves with the honour of his birth: but when Heaven and Hell shall contend about a Soul, certainly it much more speaks the dignity of it, than the contention of seven Cities for one Homer.
Hell imploys all its skill and policy, sets a-work all wiles and stratagems to destroy and ruine 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, 2 Cor. 10.4, 5. And do Heaven and Earth thus contend, think you, de lana caprina, for a thing of nought? No, no, if there were not some singular and peculiar excellency and worth in mans Soul, both worlds would never tug and pull at this rate, which should win that Prize: It was a great Argument of the worth and excellency of Homer, that incomparable Poet, that seven Cities contended for the honour of his Nativity: Smyrna, Rhodes, Coophon, Salamis, Chins, Argos, and Athens were all at strife about one poor man, who should crown