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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
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.
Inference III.
IF the Soul be so precious, then certainly it is the special care of Heaven, that which God looks more particularly after, than any other Creature on Earth.
IF the Soul be so precious, then cetainly it is the special care of Heaven, that which God looks more particularly after, than any other Creature on Earth.
There is an active vigilant Providence that superintends every Creature upon Earth: there is not the most despicable diminutive Creature that lives in the World, left without ⟨p. 384⟩the line of Providence. God is therefore said to give them all their meat in due season, and for that end they all wait upon him, Psal. 104.27. as a great and provident Housekeeper orders daily convenient provisions for all his Family, even to the least and lowest among them: the smallest Insects and Gnats which swarm so thick in the Air, and of the usefulness of whose Being it is hard to give an account; yet as the incomparably learned Dr. More well observes,1 these all find nourishment in the World, which would be lost, if they were not, and are again convenient nourishment themselves to others that prey upon them.
- 1Antidote, p. 82.