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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
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.
THE high and awful power of Conscience belonging to the understanding faculty in the Soul of Man, was spoken to before, as to its general nature, Page 21. And that conscience certainly accompanies it, and is inseparable from it, was there showed. I am here to consider it as the seat or centre of guilt in all unregenerate and lost Souls. For look as the tides wash up, and leave the slime and filth upon the shore, even so all the corruption and sin that is in the other faculties of the Soul settles, upon the conscience. Their mind and conscience (saith the Apostle) is defiled. Tit. 1.15. it is as it were the sink of a sinners Soul into which all filth runs, and guilt settles.
THE high and awful power of Conscience belonging to the understanding faculty in the Soul of Man, was spoken to before, as to its general nature, Page 21. And that conscience certainly accompanies it, and is inseparable from it, was there shewed. I am here to consider it as the seat or centre of guilt in all unregenerate and lost Souls. For look as the tides wash up, and leave the slime and filth upon the shore, even so all the corruption and sin that is in the other faculties of the Soul settles, upon the conscience. Their mind and conscience (saith the Apostle) is defiled. Tit. 1.15. it is as it were the sink of a sinners Soul into which all filth runs, and guilt settles.
The conscience of every Believer is purged from its filthiness by the blood of Christ, Heb. 9.14. his blood and his Spirit purify it and pacify it, whereby it becomes the region of light and peace, but all the guilt which hath been long contracting through the life of an unbeliever, fixes it self deep and fast in his conscience. It is written upon the Tables of their hearts as with a pen of Iron, Jer. 17.1. (i. e.) guilt is as a mark or character fashioned or engraven in the very substance of the Soul, as letters are cut into glass with a Diamond.