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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.
It cannot therefore but be a sore judgment, and a dreadful token of Gods indignation and wrath to have a restraint, or scarcity, of the means of Salvation among us; but should there be (which God in mercy prevent) a removal and total loss of these things, wrath would then come upon us to the uttermost. What will the condition of precious Souls be, when the means of Salvation are cut off from them? When that famine, worse than of bread and water, is come upon them? Amos 8.11. When the Ark of God (the Symbol of his Presence) was taken, it is said, 1 Sam. 4.13. That all the city cried out. When Paul too• his leave of Antioch, and told them they should see his face no more, how did the poor Christians lament and mourn, as cut at the heart by that killing word, Acts 20.37, 38. It made Christs bowels to yearn and roll within him, when he saw the multitude scattered as sheep having no shepherd, Matth. 9.36.
It cannot therefore but be a sore judgment, and a dreadful token of Gods indignation and wrath to have a restraint, or scarcity, of the means of Salvation among us; but should there be (which God in mercy prevent) a removal and total loss of these things, wrath would then come upon us to the uttermost. What will the condition of precious Souls be, when the means of Salvation are cut off from them? When that famine, worse than of bread and water, is come upon them? Amos 8.11. When the Ark of God (the Symbol of his Presence) was taken, it is said, 1 Sam. 4.13. That all the city cryed out. When Paul too• his leave of Antioch, and told them they should see his face no more, how did the poor Christians lament and mourn, as cut at the heart by that killing word, Acts 20.37, 38. It made Christs bowels to yearn and roll within him, when he saw the multitude scatter'd as sheep having no shepherd,