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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.
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 ⟨p. 345⟩fire not blown (of which Zophar speaks) which consumes him, or the glistering Sword coming out of his Gall, Job 20.24, &c.
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 ⟨p. 345⟩fire not blown (of which Zophar speaks) which consumes him, or the glistering Sword coming out of his Gall, Iob 20.24, &c.
Secondly, It chargeth and accuseth the damned Soul, and its charges are home, positive, and self-evident charges: a thousand legal and unexceptionable Witnesses cannot confirm any point more than one Witness in a mans bosom can do, Rom 2.15. it convicts and stops their mouths, leaving them without any excuse or Apology. Just and righteous are the Judgments of God upon thee, saith Conscience: in all this Ocean of misery, there is not one drop of injury or wrong: the Judgment of God is according unto truth.