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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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You see what honours God puts upon the very instruments employed in this work, even the honour to be Saviours under God of mens Souls, Jam. 5.20. and what a full reward of glory, joy, and comfort they shall have in Heaven: all which speaks the great value of the Soul with God. Such encouragements and such rewards would never have been propounded and promised, if God had not a singular estimation of them.
You see what honours God puts upon the very instruments imploy'd in this work, even the honour to be Saviours under God of mens Souls, Iam. 5.20. and what a full reward of glory, joy, and comfort they shall have in Heaven: all which speaks the great value of the Soul with God. Such encouragements and such rewards would never have been propounded and promised, if God had not a singular estimation of them.
And the more to quicken his instruments to all diligence in this great work, he works upon their fears as well as hopes; threatens them with Hell, as well as encourages them with the hopes of Heaven: tells them he will require the blood of all those Souls that perish by their negligence; Their blood, saith he, will I require at that watch-mans hands, Ezek. 33.6. which are rather Thunderbolts than words, saith Chrysostom. By all which you see what weight God lays upon the saving or losing of Souls: such severe charges, great encouragements, and terrible threats had never been propounded in Scripture, if the Souls of men had not been invaluably precious.
And the more to quicken his instruments to all diligence in this great work, he works upon their fears as well as hopes; threatens them with Hell, as well as incourages them with the hopes of Heaven: tells them he will require the blood of all those Souls that perish by their negligence; Their blood, saith he, will I require at that watch-mans hands,