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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 IX.
How poor a comfort is it to him that carries all his sins out of this World with him, to leave much earthly treasure (especially if gotten by sin) behind him?
HOw poor a comfort is it to him that carries all his sins out of this World with him, to leave much earthly treasure (especially if gotten by sin) behind him?
It is a poor consolation to be praised where thou art not,1 and tormented where thou art: to purchase a life of pleasure to others on earth, at the price of thine own everlasting misery in Hell. All the consolation, sensual, voluptuous, and oppressing Worldlings have, is but this, that they were coached to Hell in pomp and state, and have left the same Chariot to bring their graceless Children after them in the same Equipage to the place of Torments. There be five Considerations provoking pity to them that are thus past into a miserable eternity, and Caution to all that are following after in the same path.
It is a poor consolation to be praised where thou art not,1 and tormented where thou art: to purchase a life of pleasure to others on earth, at the price of thine own everlasting misery in Hell. All the consolation, sensual, voluptuous, and oppressing Wordlings have, is but this, that they were coached to Hell in pomp and state, and have left the same Chariot to bring their graceless Children after them in the same Equipage to the place of Torments. There be five Considerations provoking pity to them that are thus past into a miserable eternity, and Caution to all that are following after in the same path.