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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 XII.
How doleful a change doth the death of wicked men make upon them! from Palaces on Earth, to the Prison of Hell.
HOw doleful a change doth the death of wicked men make upon them! from Palaces on Earth, to the Prison of Hell.
No sooner is the Soul of a wicked man stepped out of his own door at death, but the Sergeants of Hell are immediately upon it, serving the dreadful summons on the Law-condemned wretch. This arrest terrifies it more than the hand-writing upon the plaster of the Wall did him, Dan. 5.5. How are all a mans apprehensions changed in a moment! Out of what a deep sleep are most, and out of what a pleasant dream of Heaven are some awaked and startled at death, by the dreadful arrest and summons of God to condemnation!
No sooner is the Soul of a wicked man stept out of his own door at death, but the Serjeants of Hell are immediatly upon it, serving the dreadful summons on the Law-condemned wretch. This arrest terrifies it more than the hand-writing upon the plaister of the Wall did him, Dan. 5.5. How are all a mans apprehensions changed in a moment! Out of what a deep sleep are most, and out of what a pleasant dream of Heaven are some awaked and startled at death, by the dreadful arrest and summons of God to condemnation!