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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.
We never read that Christ laughed in all his time on Earth; but we read, that he once rejoiced in Spirit, Luke 10.21. And what was the occasion of that his joy, but the success of the Gospel in the Salvation of the Souls of men? Now certainly it must be some great good that so affects ⟨p. 373⟩Christ and all his Angels in Heaven at the sight of it: the degree of a wise mans joy is according to the value of the object thereof: no man that is wise will rejoice, feel his heart leap within him for gladness at a small or common thing.
We never read that Christ laughed in all his time on Earth; but we read, that he once rejoyced in Spirit, Luke 10.21. And what was the occasion of that his joy, but the success of the Gospel in the Salvation of the Souls of men? Now certainly it must be some great good that so affects ⟨p. 373⟩Christ and all his Angels in Heaven at the sight of it: the degree of a wise mans joy is according to the value of the object thereof: no man that is wise will rejoyce, feel his heart leap within him for gladness at a small or common thing.
And as there is joy in Heaven for the saving, so certainly there is grief and rage in Hell for the loss of a Soul. No sooner had God by Pauls Ministry converted one poor Lydia at Philippi, whither he was called by an immediate Express from Heaven for that service, but the Devil put all the City into an uproar, as if an Enemy had landed on their Coast, and raised a violent Persecution, which quickly drave him thence, Acts 16.9, 14, 22.