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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 V.
How amazingly sad and deplorable is the security and stillness of the Consciences of sinners under all their own guilts, and the immediate danger of Gods everlasting wrath!
HOw amazingly sad and deplorable is the security and stilness of the Consciences of sinners under all their own guilts, and the immediate danger of Gods everlasting wrath!
Philosophers observe that before an Earthquake the Wind lies, and the weather is exceeding calm and still, not a breath of wind going. So it is in the Consciences of many just before the tempest and storm of Gods wrath pours down upon them. What a golden morning opened upon Sodom, and began that fatal day? Little did they imagine showers of fire had been ready to fall from so pleasant and serene a sky as they saw over their heads. How secure, still, and unconcerned are those to day, who it may be shall rage, roar, and tremble in Hell to morrow? Caesar hearing of a Citizen of Rome who was deep in debt, and yet slept soundly, would needs have his Pillow, as supposing there was some strange charming virtue in it.
Philosophers observe that before an Earthquake the Wind lies, and the weather is exceeding calm and still, not a breath of wind going. So it is in the Consciences of many just before the tempest and storm of Gods wrath pours down upon them. What a golden morning open'd upon Sodom, and began that fatal day? Little did they imagine showres of fire had been ready to fall from so pleasant and serene a skie as they saw over their heads. How secure, still, and unconcerned are those to day, who it may be shall rage, roar, and tremble in Hell to morrow? Caesar hearing of a Citizen of Rome who was deep in debt, and yet slept soundly, would needs have his Pillow, as supposing there was some strange charming virtue in it.