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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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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.
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. extream 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.
Fifthly, Mournful sighs and groans are heard in Prisons, Psal. 97.11. Let the sighing of the Prisoners come before thee, saith the Psalmist. But deeper sighs and emphatical groans are heard in Hell, There shall be weeping and wailing, and gnashing of teeth, Matth. 8 12. Those that could not groan under the sense of sin on Earth, shall howl under anguish and desperation in Hell.
Fifthly, Mournful sighs and groans are heard in Prisons, Psal. 97.11. Let the sighing of the Prisoners come before thee, saith the Psalmist. But deeper sighs and emphatical groans are heard in Hell, There shall be weeping and wailing, and gnashing of teeth,