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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 III.
What a matchless madness is it to cast the Soul into Gods Prison, to save the Body out of Mans Prison!
WHat a matchless madness is it to cast the Soul into Gods Prison, to save the Body out of Mans Prison!
Men have their Prisons, and God hath his: but because the one is an Object of Sense, and the other an Object of Faith; that only is feared, and this slighted all over this unbelieving World; except by a very small number of men who tremble at the Word of God. Now, this I say is the height of madness, and will appear to be so in a just Collation of both in a few Particulars. (1) Mans Prison restrains the Body only, Gods Prison Soul and Body, Matt. 10.28. The Spirits of Men (as my Text speaks) are the Prisoners there. O what a vast odds doth this single difference make? A thousand times more than the captivating and binding of the greatest King or Emperor differs from the imprisonment of a poor Mechanic, or Vagrant Beggar. (2) In Mans Prison there are many comforts and unspeakable refreshments from Heaven, but in Gods Prison none, but the direct contrary. You read of the Apostles, Acts 16.25. how they sang in the Prison: the Spirit of God made them a Banquet of heavenly Joys, and they could not but sing at it: though their