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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.
PROP. III. The Souls of the damned are exceeding large and capacious subjects of wrath and torment; and in their separate state their capacity is greatly enlarged, both by laying asleep all those affections whose exercise is relieving: and throughly awakening all those passions which are tormenting.
PROP. III. The Souls of the damned are exceeding large and capacious subjects of wrath and torment; and in their separate state their capacity is greatly enlarged, both by laying asleep all those affections whose exercise is relieving: and throughly awakning all those passions which are tormenting.
THE Soul of man being by nature a Spirit, an intelligent Spirit, and in its substantial faculties assimilated to God whose image it bears: it must for that reason be exquisitely sensible of all the impressions and touches of the wrath of God upon it. The Spirit of man is a most tender, sensible and apprehensive Creature. The eye of the Body is not so sensible of a touch, a nerve of the Body is not so sensible when pricked; as the Spirit of man is of the least touch of Gods indignation upon it. A wounded spirit who can bear? Prov. 18.14. Other external wounds upon the Body, inflicted either by man or God, are tolerable; but that which immediately toucheth the Spirit of man is insufferable. Who can bear or endure it?
And as the Spirit of man hath the most delicate and exquisite sense of misery; so it hath a vast capacity to receive, and let in the fullness of anguish and misery into it: it is a large vessel, called,