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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. IV. The wrath, indignation, and revenge of God poured out as the just reward of sin upon the so capacious Souls of the damned, is the principal part of their misery in Hell.
IN the third Proposition I showed you that the Souls of the damned can hold more misery than all the creatures can inflict ⟨p. 343⟩upon them. When the Soul suffers from the hand of man, its sufferings are but either by way of sympathy with the Body; or if immediately, yet it is but a light stroke the hand of a creature can give: But when it hath to do with a sin revenging God, and that immediately, this stroke cuts off the spirit of man, as the expression is Psal. 88.16. The Body is the clothing of the Soul Most of the arrows shot at the Soul in this World do but stick in the clothes, (i. e.) reach the outward man: but in Hell, the Spirit of man is the white at which God himself shoots. All his envenomed arrows strike the Soul, which is after death laid bare and naked to be wounded by his hand. At death, the Soul of every wicked man immediately falls into the hands of the living God, and it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God, as the Apostle speaks, Heb. 10.31. Their punishment is from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power, 2 Thes. 1.9. They are not put over to their fellow creatures to be punished, but God will do it himself, and glorify his power as well as justice in their punishment. The wrath of God lies immediately upon their Spirits, and this is the fiery indignation which devoureth the adversaries, Heb. 10.27. A fire that licks up the very Spirit of man, who knoweth the power of his anger? Psal. 90.11. How insupportable it is you may a little guess by that expression of the Prophet