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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 VI.
ARE Souls so precious, then certainly the means and instruments of their Salvation must be exceeding precious too, and the removal of them a sore Judgment.
ARE Souls so precious, then certainly the means and instruments of their Salvation must be exceeding precious too, and the removal of them a sore Iudgment.
The dignity of the subject gives value to the instruments employed about it. It is no ordinary mercy for Souls to come into such a part of the World, and in such a time as furnisheth them with the best helps for Salvation. Ordinan▪ces and Ministers receive their value not only from their ⟨p. 389⟩Author, but their Object: they have a dignity stamped upon them by their usefulness to the Souls of men, Acts 20.32. it is the seed of life, 1 Pet. 1.23. the regenerating instrument. It is the bread of life, Job 23.12. more than our necessary food. The Word is a Light shining in the dark World to direct our Souls through all the snares laid for them, unto Glory. It is the Souls Cordial in all fainting fits,