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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.
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
Be hid] If not as to the general light and superficial knowledge of it, yet as to its saving influence and converting efficacy upon their hearts, this never reacheth home to the Souls and spirits of multitudes that hear it; but it is never finally so hidden, except
To them that are lost,] So that all those to whom the converting and saving power of the Gospel never comes, whatever other knowledge they have, whatever duties they perform, whatever names and reputations they may have among men, yet this Text looks upon them all as a lost generation: they may have as many amiable homiletical Virtues, as sweet and lovely Natures, as clear and piercing eyes in all other things as any others; but they are such however
To them that are lost,] So that all those to whom the converting and saving power of the Gospel never comes, whatever other knowledge they have, whatever duties they perform, whatever names and reputations they may have among men, yet this Text looks upon them all as a lost generation: they may have as many amiable homilitical Vertues, as sweet and lovely Natures, as clear and piercing eyes in all other things as any others; but they are such however