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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 XIV.
How much are Ministers, Parents, and all to whom the charge of Souls is committed; bound to do all that in them lies, to prevent their everlasting misery in the World to come?
HOw much are Ministers, Parents, and all to whom the charge of Souls is committed; bound to do all that in them lies, to prevent their everlasting misery in the World to come?
The great Apostle of the Gentiles, found the consideration of the terror of the Lord, as a spur urging and enforcing him to ministerial faithfulness and diligence, 2 Cor. 5.11. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men: and the same he presseth upon Timothy, 2 Tim. 4.1, 2. I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick, and the dead at his appearing, and his Kingdom: Preach the Word, be instant in season, and out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering, and Doctrine. O that those to whom so great a trust as the Souls of men is committed, would labour to acquit themselves with all faithfulness therein as Paul did, warning every one night and day with tears, that if we cannot prevent their ruin which is most desirable; yet at least, we may be able to take God to Witness, as he did, that we are pure from the blood of all men.