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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.
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.
1. 'Tis certain sin hath no such Pleasures to give you: they are all imbitter'd either by adverse stroaks of Providence from without, or painful and deadly gripes and twinges of Conscience within, Iob 20.14. His meat in his Bowels is turned, it is the gall of Aspes within him.
2. 'Tis as certain, the time of a sinner is near its Period when he is at the height of his pleasure in sin: for look, as high delights in God speak the Maturity of a Soul for Heaven, and it will not be long before such be in Heaven, so the heights of delight in sin, answerably speak the Maturity of such a Soul for Hell; and it will not be long ere it be there. Sin is now a big Embryo, and speedily the Soul travels with death.
3 According to the measure of delights men have had in sin, will be the degrees and measures of their torment in Hell, Rev. 18.7. so much torment and sorrow, as there was delight and pleasure in sin.