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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.
If the Souls of men perish at death, either God never did appoint any Souls to Salvation, as the Scriptures testify he did, 1 Thes. 5.9. or else the foundation of God stands not sure, as his word tells us, it doth, 2 Tim. 2.19. So then, this supposition overturns the eternal Decrees and Counsels of God, which is the first thing.
If the Souls of men perish at death, either God never did appoint any Souls to Salvation, as the Scriptures testifie he did, 1 Thes. 5.9. or else the foundation of God stands not sure, as his word tells us, it doth, 2 Tim. 2.19. So then, this supposition overturns the eternal Decrees and Counsels of God, which is the first thing.
2. It overthrows the Covenant of Redemption betwixt the Father and the Son, before this World was made. There was a federal transaction betwixt the Father and Son from Eternity, about our Salvation, 2 Tim. 1.9. Zech. 6.13. In that Covenant Christ engaged to redeem the Elect by his blood. And the Father promised him a reward of those his sufferings, Isai. 53.12. accordingly he hath poured out his Soul to death for them, finished the work, John 17.4. and is now in Heaven, expecting the full reward and fruits of his sufferings, which consist not in his own personal glory, which he there enjoys, but in the completeness and fullness of his mystical Body,