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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.
All] Not one of that heavenly Company excepted. The highest Angel thinks it no disparagement to serve a Soul for whom Christ die. Well may they all stoop to serve them, ⟨p. 378⟩w•en they see Christ their Lord hath stooped even to death to save them. They are all of them
Ministering Spirits] [Greek or Hebrew], public Officers to whom their Tutelage is committed: to them it belongs to attend, serve, protect, and relieve them. The greatest Peers and Barons in the Kingdom think it not below them to wait upon the Heir apparent to the Crown in his Minority; and no less dignity is here stamped by God upon the Souls of men, whom he calls
Ministring Spirits] 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, publick Officers to whom their Tutelage is committed: to them it belongs to attend, serve, protect, and relieve them. The greatest Peers and Barons in the Kingdom think it not below them to wait upon the Heir apparent to the Crown in his Minority; and no less dignity is here stampt by God upon the Souls of men, whom he calls
Heirs of Salvation] And in some respect nearer to Christ than themselves are; on this account it is that the Angels delight to serve them. Christs little ones upon earth have their Angels, which always behold the face of God in Heaven, Mat. 18.10. and therefore saith our Lord there, Take heed you despise not one of these little ones; they are greater persons than you are aware of. Nor is it enough that one Angel is appointed to wait upon all, or many of them, but many Angels, even a whole Host of them are sometimes sent to attend upon one of them. As Jacob was going on his way, the Angels of God met him, and when he saw them, he said, This is Gods host,