A39675:1381
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 XIII.
See here the certainty and inevitableness of the judgment of the great day.
SEe here the certainty and inevitableness of the judgment of the great day.
This Prison which is continually filling with the Spirits of wicked men, is an undeniable evidence of it: for why is Hell called a Prison, and why are the Spirits of men confined and chained there; but with respect to the judgment of the great day? As there is a necessary connection betwixt sin and punishment, so betwixt punishing and trying the Offender: there are millions of Souls in custody, a world of Spirits in Prison, these must be brought forth to their Trial, for God will lay upon no man more than is right: the legality of their Mittimus to Hell, will be evidenced in their solemn day of Trial. God hath therefore appointed a day in which he will judge the World in righteousness, by that Man whom he hath ordained, Acts 17.31.
This Prison which is continually filling with the Spirits of wicked men, is an undeniable evidence of it: for why is Hell called a Prison, and why are the Spirits of men confined and chained there; but with respect to the judgment of the great day? As there is a necessary connection betwixt sin and punishment, so betwixt punishing and trying the Offender: there are millions of Souls in custody, a world of Spirits in Prison, these must be brought forth to their Tryal, for God will lay upon no man more than is right: the legality of their Mittimus to Hell, will be evidenced in their solemn day of Tryal. God hath therefore appointed a day in which he will judge the World in righteousness, by that Man whom he hath ordained,