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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.
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.
And indeed what are all the fierce and cruel persecutions of Gods faithful Ministers, but so many efforts of the rage and malice of Hell against them, for plucking Souls as so many captives and preys out of his paws? For this he owes them a spite, and will be sure to pay them, if ever he get them at an advantage. But all this joy and grief demonstrates the high and great value of the Prize which is won by Heaven, and lost by Hell.
And indeed what are all the fierce and cruel persecutions of Gods faithful Ministers, but so many efforts of the rage and malice of Hell against them, for plucking Souls as so many captives and preys out of his paws? For this he owes them a spight, and will be sure to pay them, if ever he get them at an advantage. But all this joy and grief demonstrates the high and great value of the Prize which is won by Heaven, and lost by Hell.
9. Ninthly, The institution of Gospel-Ordinances and the appointment of so many Gospel-Officers purposely for the saving of Souls, is no small evidence of what value and esteem they are.