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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 XI.VIII
- VIIIEndued with Understanding, Will, and Affections.Endued with Vnderstanding, Will, and Affections.
Hath God endued the Soul of man with Understanding, Will and Affections, whereby it is made capable of knowing, loving, and enjoying God; 'Tis then no wonder to find the malice and envy of Satan engaged against man, more than any other Creature; and against the Soul of man rather than any thing else in man.
HAth God endued the Soul of man with Understanding, Will and Affections, whereby it is made capable of knowing, loving, and enjoying God; 'Tis then no wonder to find the malice and envy of Satan engaged against man, more than any other Creature; and against the Soul of man rather than any thing else in man.
It grates that spirit of envy, to see the Soul of Man adorning and preparing by sanctification, to fill that place in glory, from which he fell irrecoverably. It cut Haman to the very heart, to see the honour that was done to Mordecai; much more doth it grate and gall Satan, to see what Jesus Christ hath purchased and designed for the Souls of Men. Other creatures being naturally uncapable of this happiness, do therefore escape his fury, but men shall be sure to feel it, as far as he can reach them;