A39675:1487
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.
How great a trust and charge lieth upon them to whom the care of Souls is committed, and from whom an account for other mens, as well as their own Souls shall certainly be required?
HOw great a trust and charge lyeth upon them to whom the care of Souls is committed, and from whom an account for other mens, as well as their own Souls shall certainly be required?
Ministers are appointed of God to watch for the Souls of their people, and that as men that must give an account, Heb. 13.17.1The word here translated watch, signifies such watchfulness as that of Shepherds which keep their stocks by night in places infested by Wolves, who watch whole nights together for their safety. If a man were a keeper only of Sheep or Swine, it were no great matter if the Wolf now and then carried away one whilst we slept; but Ministers have charge of Souls, one of which, as Christ assures us in the Text, is more worth than the whole World. Hear what one speaks upon this point.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew] est noctes insomnes agere, quod solent viri [Greek or Hebrew] pernox soticitudo.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 est noctes insomnes agere, quod solent viri 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 pernox soticitudo.
God purchased the Church with his own Blood,