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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.
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.
In this valley also was the memorable slaughter of eighteen hundred thousand of the Assyrian Camp by an Angel in one night.
There also the Babylonians murdered the people of Jerusalem at the taking of the City, Jer. 7.31, 32. So that Tophet was a mere Shambles, the public chopping block on which the limbs both of young and old were quartered out by thousands; it was filled with dead Bodies, till there was no place for burial. By all which it appears that no spot of ground in the World was so famous for the fires kindled in it to destroy men, for the doleful cries that echoed from it, or the innumerable multitudes that perished in it; for which reasons it is made the emblem of Hell. Sometimes it is called a lake of fire burning with brimstone, 1Rev. 19.20. denoting the most exquisite torment, by an intense and durable flame.
There also the Babylonians murthered the people of Ierusalem at the taking of the City, Ier. 7.31, 32. So that Tophet was a meer Shambles, the publick chopping block on which the limbs both of young and old were quartered out by thousands; it was filled with dead Bodies, till there was no place for burial. By all which it appears that no spot of ground in the World was so famous for the fires kindled in it to destroy men, for the doleful cries that echo'd from it, or the innumerable multitudes that perished in it; for which reasons it is made the embleme of Hell. Sometimes it is called a lake of fire burning with brimstone, 1Rev. 19.20. denoting the most exquisite torment, by an intense and durable flame.