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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.
TEXT.
Heb. 12.23. — [Greek or Hebrew] — And to the Spirits of just Men made perfect.
Heb. 12.23. — 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 — And to the Spirits of just Men made perfect.
THE particular scope of this context falls in with the general design of the whole Gospel, which is to persuade men to a life of Holiness. The matter of the exhortation is most weighty, and the Arguments enforcing it most powerful: he doth not talk, but dispute; he doth not say, but prove that greater and more powerful engagements unto holiness lye upon those who live under the Gospel, than upon the people who lived under the Law. And thus the Argument lies in this Context.
THE particular scope of this context falls in with the general design of the whole Gospel, which is to perswade men to a life of Holiness. The matter of the exhortation is most weighty, and the Arguments inforcing it most powerful: he doth not talk, but dispute; he doth not say, but prove that greater and more powerful engagements unto holiness lye upon those who live under the Gospel, than upon the people who lived under the Law. And thus the Argument lies in this Context.