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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 VII.
BE hence informed of the evil that is in sin; be convinced of the evil that is in it, by the eternal misery that follows it.
BE hence inform'd of the evil that is in sin; be convinced of the evil that is in it, by the eternal misery that follows it.
If Hell be out of measure dreadful, then sin must be out of measure sinful: the torments of Hell do not exceed the demerit of sin, though they exceed the understandings of men to conceive them. God will lay upon no man more than is right: sin is the Founder of Hell: all the miseries and torments there, are but the Treasures of wrath which sinners in all Ages have been treasuring up, and how dreadful soever it be, it is but the [Greek or Hebrew], the recompense which is meet, Rom. 6. ult. The Wages of sin is death.
If Hell be out of measure dreadful, then sin must be out of measure sinful: the torments of Hell do not exceed the demerit of sin, though they exceed the understandings of men to conceive them. God will lay upon no man more than is right: sin is the Founder of Hell: all the miseries and torments there, are but the Treasures of wrath which sinners in all Ages have been treasuring up, and how dreadful soever it be, it is but the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the recompence which is meet, Rom. 6. ult. The Wages of sin is death.