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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.
No man will dig for common stones with golden Mattocks, ⟨image 204⟩the instruments that would be worn out being of far greater value than the thing. This may convince us of what worth our Souls are, and at what rates they are set in Gods Book, that such instruments are sent abroad into the World, and such precious Gifts and Graces like golden Oil spent continually for their Salvation: whether Paul, or Apollo, or Cephas, all are yours, 1 Cor. 3.22. (i. e.) all set apart for the service and salvation of your Souls.
No man will dig for common stones with golden Mattocks, ⟨image 204⟩the instruments that would be worn out being of far greater value than the thing. This may convince us of what worth our Souls are, and at what rates they are set in Gods Book, that such instruments are sent abroad into the World, and such precious Gifts and Graces like golden Oyl spent continually for their Salvation: whether Paul, or Apollo, or Cephas, all are yours, 1 Cor. 3.22. (i. e.) all set apart for the service and salvation of your Souls.
10. Tenthly, The great encouragements and rewards God propounds, and promiseth to them that win Souls, speaks their worth, and Gods great esteem of them.
There cannot be a more acceptable service done to God, than for a man to set himself heartily and diligently to the Conversion of Souls: so many Souls as a man instrumentally saves, so many Diadems will God crown him withal in the great Day. S. Paul calls his converted Philippians his joy and his crown,