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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.
Inference II.
Hence it follows, That the pleasures of sin are dear bought and costly pleasures. There is a greater disproportion betwixt that pleasure, and this wrath; than betwixt a drop of Honey, and a Sea of Gall. Could a man distil all the imaginable pleasure of sin, and drink nothing else but the highest and most refined delights of it all his life, though his life should be protracted to the Term of Methuselahs: Yet one day or night under the wrath of God would make it a dear bargain. But
HEnce it follows, That the pleasures of sin are dear bought and costly pleasures. There is a greater disproportion betwixt that pleasure, and this wrath; than betwixt a drop of Honey, and a Sea of Gall. Could a man distil all the imaginable pleasure of sin, and drink nothing else but the highest and most refined delights of it all his life, though his life should be protracted to the Term of Methuselahs: Yet one day or night under the wrath of God would make it a dear bargain. But
1. 'Tis certain sin hath no such Pleasures to give you: they are all embittered either by adverse strokes of Providence from without, or painful and deadly gripes and twinges of Conscience within, Job 20.14. His meat in his Bowels is turned, it is the gall of Asps within him.