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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.
Argument VI.
IT should greatly fortify the People of God, against the fears of Dissolution, to consider that death can neither destroy the being of their Souls by Annihilation, nor the hopes and expectations they have of blessedness by disappointment and frustration, Prov. 14.32. The Righteous hath hope in his death. Though all earthly things fail at death (upon which account dying is expressed by failing, Luke 16.19.) Yet neither the Soul, nor the well grounded hopes can fail. The Anchor of a Believers hope is firm and sure, Hebr. 6.18. It will not come home in the greatest Storm, that can beat upon the Soul. For (1) God hath foreknown and chosen them to Salvation before the World was, 1 Pet. 1.2, And this Foundation of God standeth sure, having this Seal, the Lord knoweth who are his, 2 Tim. 2.19. His Decrees are as firm as Mountains of Brass, Z•ch. 6.1. (2) God hath justified their persons, and therein destroyed the power of death over them, 1 Cor. 15.55, 56, 57. O death, where is thy Sting? O Grave, where is thy Victory? The sting of death is s•n, the strength of sin is the Law. If all the hurtful power of death lies in sin, and all the destructive power of sin rises from the Law; then neither death, nor sin, have