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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.
What an invaluable mercy is the pardon of sin, which sets the Soul out of all danger of going to this prison! When the debt is satisfied, a man may walk as boldly before the prison door, as he doth before his own: they that owe nothing, fear no Bailiffs. 'Tis the Law (as I said before) that commits men to Prison, a Mittimus is but an instrument of Law; but the righteousness of the Law is fulfilled in them that believe, Rom. 8.4. Yea, they are made the righteousness of God in him, 2 Cor. 5.21. There can be no process of Law against them. For who shall condemn, when ⟨p. 350⟩it is God that justifieth? Rom. 8.33, 34. And that divine justice might be no bar to our faith or comfort, he adds, It is Christ that died; and yet farther to assure us that his death hath made plenary satisfaction to God for all our sins and debts, it added, Yea, rather that is risen again. q. d. If the debts of believers to God were not fully paid and satisfied for by the blood of Christ, how comes it to pass that our Surety is discharged, as by his Resurrection he appears to be? O Believer, thy Bonds are Cancelled, the hand-writing that was against thee is nailed to the Cross, the blood of Christ hath done that for thee, that all the Gold and Silver in the World could not do, 1 Pet. 1.18, 19. It is a counter price,1 fully answering to thy debts, Matth. 20.28. And hence to the Eternal joy of thy heart result three properties of thy pardon, which are able to make thine eyes gush out with tears of joy whilst thou art reading of it.
WHat an invaluable mercy is the pardon of sin, which sets the Soul out of all danger of going to this prison! When the debt is satisfied, a man may walk as boldly before the prison door, as he doth before his own: they that owe nothing, fear no Bayliffs. 'Tis the Law (as I said before) that commits men to Prison, a Mittimus is but an instrument of Law; but the righteousness of the Law is fulfilled in them that believe,