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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
1 Pet. iii. ver. 19. By which also he went and preached unto the SP… › DOCT.
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Hell is shadowed forth to us in Scripture by diverse Metaphors; for we cannot conceive spiritual things unless they be so clothed and shadowed out unto us.1 Augustine gives this reason for the frequent use of Metaphors and Allegories in Scripture, because they are so much proportioned to our senses, with which our senses have contracted an intimacy and familiarity: and therefore God to accommodate his truth to our capacity, doth as it were this way embody it in earthly expressions, according to that celebrated observation of the Cabalists, lumen supremum nunquam descendit sine indumento: The pure and supreme light never descends to us without a garment or covering. In the old Testament the place and state of damned Souls is set forth by Metaphors taken from the most remarkable places and exemplary acts of vengeance upon sinners in this World; as the overthrow of the Giants by the flood, those prodigious sinners that fought against Heaven, and were swept by the flood into the place of Torments:2 to this, Solomon is conceived to allude in Prov. 21.16. The man that wanders out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead; in the Heb. it is, they shall remain with the Rephaims or Giants. These Giants were the men that more especially provoked God to bring the flood upon the World; they are also noted as the first inhabitants of Hell, therefore from them the place of Torments takes its name, and the damned are said to remain in the place of Giants.
Hell is shadowed forth to us in Scripture by diverse Metaphors; for we cannot conceive spiritual things unless they be so cloathed and shadowed out unto us.1 Augustine gives this reason for the frequent use of Metaphors and Allegories in Scripture, because they are so much proportioned to our senses, with which our senses have contracted an intimacy and familiarity: and therefore God to accommodate his truth to our capacity, doth as it were this way embody it in earthly expressions, according to that celebrated observation of the Cabalists, lumen supremum nunquam descendit sine indumento: The pure and supream light never descends to us without a garment or covering. In the old Testament the place and state of damned Souls is set forth by Metaphors taken from the most remarkable places and exemplary acts of vengeance upon sinners in this World; as the overthrow of the Giants by the flood, those prodigious sinners that fought against Heaven, and were swept by the flood into the place of Torments: