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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
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Thirdly, It condemns as well as chargeth and witnesseth, and that with a dreadful Sentence; backing and approving the sentence and Judgment of God, 1 John 3.21. every self-destroyer will be a self-condemner: This is a prime part of their misery, —Prima est haec ultio,1 quod se Judice nemo nocens absolvitur improba quamvis Gratia fallacis Praetoris vicerit urnam.
Thirdly, It condemns as well as chargeth and witnesseth, and that with a dreadful Sentence; backing and approving the •entence and Judgment of God, 1 Iohn 3.21. every self-destroyer will be a self-condemner: This is a prime part of their misery, —Prima est haec ultio,1 quod se Iudice nemo nocens absolvitur improba quamvis Gratia fallacis Praetoris vicerit urnam.
- 1Juven. Sat. 13.
Fourthly, The upbraidings of Conscience in Hell are terrible and insufferable things: to be continually hit in the teeth and twitted with our madness, wilfulness, and obstinacy, as the cause of all that eternal misery which we have pulled down upon our own heads, What is it but the rubbing of the wound with Salt and Vinegar? Of this torment holy Jo• was afraid, and therefore resolved what in him lay to prevent it, when he saith, Job 27.6. My heart (i.e. my Conscience) shall not reproach me so long as I live. O the twits and taunts of Conscience are cruel cuts and lashes to the Soul.