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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.
But no sooner is the Christless Soul turned out of the Body, and cast for eternity at the bar of God, but conscience is roused, and put into a rage never to be appeased any more. It now racks and tortures the miserable Soul with its utmost efficacy and activity. The mere presages and forebodings of wrath by the consciences of sinners in this World hath made them lye with a ghastly paleness in their faces, an universal trembling in all their Members, a cold sweating horror upon their panting bosoms, like men already in Hell: but this, all this is but as the sweating or giving of the stones before the great rain falls. The activities of conscience (especially in Hell) are various, vigorous, and dreadful to consider, such are its recognitions, accusations condemnations upbraidings, shameings, and fearful expectations.
But no sooner is the Christless Soul turn'd out of the Body, and cast for eternity at the bar of God, but conscience is rouzed, and put into a rage never to be appeased any more. It now racks and tortures the miserable Soul with its utmost efficacy and activity. The mere presages and forebodeings of wrath by the consciences of sinners in this World hath made them lye with a ghastly paleness in their faces, an universal trembling in all their Members, a cold sweating horrour upon their panting bosoms, like men already in Hell: but this, all this is but as the sweating or giving of the stones before the great rain falls. The activities of conscience (especially in Hell) are various, vigorous, and dreadful to consider, such are its recognitions, accusations condemnations upbraidings, shameings, and fearful expectations.
First, the consciences of the damned will recognize, and bring back the sins committed in this World fresh to their mind: for what is conscience, but a Register, or book of Records wherein every sin is ranked in its proper place and order: this act of conscience is fundamental to all its other acts; for it cannot accuse, condemn, upbraid, or shame us, for that it hath lost out of its memory, and hath no sense of. Son, remember, said Abraham to Dives in the midst of his torments. This remembrance of sins past, mercies past, opportunities past, but especially of hope past and gone with them, never to be recovered any more, is like that