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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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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, Matth. 8 12. Those that could not groan under the sence of sin on Earth, shall howl under anguish and desperation in Hell.
Sixthly, There is a time when Prisoners are brought out of the Prison to be judged, and then return in a worse condition than before, to the place from whence they came. God also hath appointed a day for the solemn condemnation of those Spirits in Prison. The Scriptures call it the judgement of the great day, Jude v. 6. from the great business that is to be done therein, and the great and solemn assembly that shall then appear before God.
Sixthly, There is a time when Prisoners are brought out of the Prison to be judged, and then return in a worse condition than before, to the place from whence they came. God also hath appointed a day for the solemn condemnation of those Spirits in Prison. The Scriptures call it the iudgement of the great day, Iude v. 6. from the great business that is to be done therein, and the great and solemn assembly that shall then appear before God.