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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 VIII.
What enemies are they to the Souls of men, who are Satan's instruments to draw them into sin, or who suffer sin to lie upon them?
WHat enemies are they to the Souls of men, who are Satans instruments to draw them into sin, or who suffer sin to lie upon them?
When there were but two persons in the World, one drew the other into sin; and among the Millions of Men and Women now in the World, where are there two to be found, that have in no case been snares to draw some into sin? Some tempt designedly, ⟨p. 355⟩taking the Devils work out of his hands: others virtually and consequentially by examples which have a compelling power to draw others with them into sin: the first sort are among the worst of Sinners, Prov. 1.10. the latter are among the best of Saints: see Gal. 2.14. Whose Conversation is so much in Heaven, that nothing falls out in the course thereof which may not farther some or other in their way to Hell?