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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 X.
How rational and commendable is the courage and resolution of those Christians who choose to bear all the sufferings in this World from the hands of men, rather than to defile and wound their consciences with sin, and thereby expose their Souls to the wrath of God for ever!
HOw rational and commendable is the courage and resolution of those Christians who chuse to bear all the sufferings in this World from the hands of men, rather than to defile and wound their consciences with sin, and thereby expose their Souls to the wrath of God for ever!
That which men now call Pride, Humour, Fancy, and Stubbornness; will one day appear to be their great wisdom and the excellency of their Spirits. It is the tenderness of their Consciences, not the pride and stoutness of their stomachs, which makes them inflexible to sin, they know the terrors of a wounded Conscience, and had rather endure any other trouble from the hands of men, than fall by known sin into the hands of an angry God. Try them in other matters wherein the glory of God, and peace or purity of their Consciences are not concerned, and see if you can charge them with stubbornness, and singularity. It was the excellency of the Spirits of the Primitive Christians, that they durst to tell the Emperor to his face, when he threatened them with torments; Pardon us, O Emperor, thou ⟨p. 357⟩