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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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Among many others, there are two things in which the tender care of God for the good of Souls is manifested, ⟨p. 377⟩(1.) In his tenderness over them in times of distress and danger, as a tender father will not leave his sick child in other hands, but sits up and watches by him himself, and administers the Cordials with his own hands; even so the great God expresseth his care and tenderness, Isa. 57.15. I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. Behold the condescending tenderness of the highest Majesty! Is a Soul ready to faint and fail, O how soon is God with it, with a reviving Cordial in his hand, lest the spirit should fail before him, and the Soul which he hath made? as it is vers. 16. yea, he put it into Christs Commission to preach good tidings to the meek, and to bind up the broken-hearted, Isa. 61.1. and not only inserts it in Christs Commission, but gives the same in solemn charge to all his inferior Messengers whom he employs about them, Isa. 35.3. Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees; say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not. (2.) His special regard to Souls is evidenced in his severe prohibitions to all others to do nothing that may be an occasion of ruin to them. He charges it upon all, That no man put a stumbling-block, or an occasion to fall in his brothers way, Rom. 14.13. that by the abuse of our own liberty, we destroy not him for whom Christ died, Rom. 14.15. And what doth all this signify, but the precious and invaluable worth of Souls?
Among many others, there are two things in which the tender care of God for the good of Souls is manifested, ⟨p. 377⟩(1.) In his tenderness over them in times of distress and danger, as a tender father will not leave his sick child in other hands, but sits up and watches by him himself, and administers the Cordials with his own hands; even so the great God expresseth his care and tenderness,