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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 2: DOCT. II.
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.
And though some Nations enjoy the inestimable privilege of the Gospel of Salvation, yet multitudes of precious Souls perish notwithstanding, sinking into Hell daily as it were betwixt the merciful arms of a Saviour stretched out to save them. The light of Salvation is risen upon us, but Satan draws the thick curtains of ignorance and prejudice about the multitude, that not a beam of saving light can shine into their hearts: 2 Cor. 4.3, 4. But if our Gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
And though some Nations enjoy the inestimable priviledge of the Gospel of Salvation, yet multitudes of precious Souls perish notwithstanding, sinking into Hell daily as it were betwixt the merciful arms of a Saviour stretched out to save them. The light of Salvation is risen upon us, but Satan draws the thick curtains of ignorance and prejudice about the multitude, that not a beam of saving light can shine into their hearts: 2 Cor. 4.3, 4. But if our Gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
If our Gospel] Ours, not by way of institution, as the Authors, but by way of dispensation, as the Ministers and Preachers of it: and certainly it was never preached with that clearness, authority, and efficacy by any mere man, as it was by Paul and the rest of the Apostles, and yet the Gospel so powerfully preached, is by him here supposed to
If our Gospel] Ours, not by way of institution, as the Authors, but by way of dispensation, as the Ministers and Preachers of it: and certainly it was never preached with that clearness, authority, and efficacy by any meer man, as it was by Paul and the rest of the Apostles, and yet the Gospel so powerfully preached, is by him here supposed to