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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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But I will insist no longer upon the display of the Metaphor. My business is to give you a representation of the state and condition of damned Souls in Hell, and to assist your conceptions of them and of their state.
'Tis a dreadful sight I am to give you this day, but how much better is it to see, than to feel that wrath: the treasures thereof shall shortly be broken up, and poured forth upon the Spirits of men.
You had in the former Discourse a faint umbrage of the Spirits of just men in glory; in this you will have an imperfect representation of the Spirits of wicked men in Hell: and look as the former cannot be adequate and perfect, because that happiness passeth our knowledge; so neither can this be so, because the misery of the damned passeth our fear.
The case and state of a damned Spirit will be best opened in these following Propositions.