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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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Thirdly, Prisoners are chained and bolted in Prison to prevent their escape: so are damned Spirits secured by the power of God, and chained by their own guilty and trembling Consciences in Hell, unto the time of Judgment, and the fullness of misery; not that they have no torment in the mean time Alas! Were there no more but that fearful expectation of wrath and fiery indignation, spoken of by the Apostle, Heb. 10.27. it were an inexpressible torment; but there is a further degree of torment ⟨p. 338⟩to be awarded them at the judgment of the great day, to which they are therefore kept as in Chains and Prisons.
Thirdly, Prisoners are chained and bolted in Prison to prevent their escape: so are damned Spirits secured by the power of God, and chained by their own guilty and trembling Consciences in Hell, unto the time of Judgment, and the fulness of misery; not that they have no torment in the mean time Alas! Were there no more but that fearful expectation of wrath and fiery indignation, spoken of by the Apostle, Heb. 10.27. it were an inexpressible torment; but there is a further degree of torment ⟨p. 338⟩to be awarded them at the judgment of the great day, to which they are therefore kept as in Chains and Prisons.
Fourthly, Prisons are dark and noisome places not built for pleasure, as other houses are, but for punishment; so is Hell, Jud. v. 6. Reserved in everlasting chains under darkness, as he there describes the place of torments, yea utter darkness, Matth. 8. v. 12. extreme or perfect darkness. Philosophers tell us of the darkness of this World, non dantur purae tenebrae, that there is no pure or perfect darkness here, without some mixture of light; but there is not a glade of light, not a spark of hope or comfort shining into that Prison.