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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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Would Heaven and Hell be up in Arms, as it were, and strive at this rate for nothing? Thy Soul, O man, how vilely soever thou depreciatest and slightest it, is of high esteem, a rich purchase, a Creature of nobler rank than thou art aware of. The wise Merchant knows the value of Gold and Diamonds, though ignorant Indians would part with them for Glass-beads and Tinsel toys. And this leads us to
Would Heaven and Hell be up in Arms, as it were, and strive at this rate for nothing? Thy Soul, O man, how vilely soever thou depreciatest and slightest it, is of high esteem, a rich purchace, a Creature of nobler rank than thou art aware of. The wise Merchant knows the value of Gold and Diamonds, though ignorant Indians would part with them for Glass-beads and Tinsel toyes. And this leads us to
8. The eighth Evidence of the invaluable worth of Souls, which is the joy in Heaven, and the rage in Hell for the gain and loss of the Soul of man.
Christ who came from Heaven, and well knew the frame and disposition of the Inhabitants of that City,1 tells us, That there is joy in the presence of the Angels of God over one sinner that repenteth, Luke 15.7, 10. No sooner is the heart of a sinner darted with conviction, broken with sorrow for sin, and begins to cry, Men and brethren, what shall I do? but the news is quickly in Heaven, and sets all the City of God a rejoicing at it, as is in the chief City of a Kingdom when a young Prince is born.
Christ who came from Heaven, and well knew the frame and disposition of the Inhabitants of that City,