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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. V The separate Spirit of a damned man becomes a tormentor to it self by the various and efficacious actings of its own conscience, which are a special part of its torment in the other World.
Conscience which should have been the sinners curb on earth, becomes the Whip that must lash his Soul in Hell. Neither is there any faculty or power belonging to the Soul of man so fit and able to do it as his own conscience. That which was the seat and centre of all guilt, now becomes the seat and centre of all torments. The suspension of its tormenting power in this World is a mystery and wonder to all that duly consider it. For certainly should the Lord let a sinners conscience fly upon him with rage in the midst of his sins and pleasures, it would put them into an Hell upon Earth, as we see in the doleful instances of Judas, Spira, &c. but he keeps an hand of restraint upon them generally in this life, and suffers them to sleep quietly by a grumbling or seared conscience, which couches by them as a sleepy Lion, and lets them alone.
COnscience which should have been the sinners curb on earth, becomes the Whip that must lash his Soul in Hell. Neither is there any faculty or power belonging to the Soul of man so fit and able to do it as his own conscience. That which was the seat and centre of all guilt, now becomes the seat and centre of all torments. The suspension of its tormenting power in this World is a mystery and wonder to all that duely consider it. For certainly should the Lord let a sinners conscience flie upon him with rage in the midst of his sins and pleasures, it would put them into an Hell upon Earth, as we see in the doleful instances of Iudas, Spira, &c. but he keeps an hand of restraint upon them generally in this life, and suffers them to sleep quietly by a grumbling or seared conscience, which couches by them as a sleepy Lion, and lets them alone.