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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.
(1.) How much easier it is to endure the torments of men in our bodies, than to feel the terrors of God in our Consciences? Can the Creature strike with an arm like God? O think what it is for the wrath of God to come into a mans bowels like water, and like oil into his bones, as the expression is, Psal. 109.18. Sure there is no compare betwixt the strokes of God and men.
(1.) How much easier it is to endure the torments of men in our bodies, than to feel the terrors of God in our Consciences? Can the Creature strike with an arm like God? O think what it is for the wrath of God to come into a mans bowels like water, and like oyl into his bones, as the expression is, Psal. 109.18. Sure there is no compare betwixt the strokes of God and men.
(2.) The sufferings of the body are but for a moment. When the Proconsul told Polycarp that he would tame him with fire: he replied, Your fire shall burn but for the space of an hour, and then it shall be extinguished; but the fire that shall devour the wicked will never be quenched: the sufferings of a moment are nothing to eternal sufferings.
(3.) Sufferings for Christ are usually sweetened and made easy by the consolations of the Spirit; but Hell-torments have no relief, they admit of no ease.
(3.) Sufferings for Christ are usually sweetned and made easie by the consolations of the Spirit; but Hell-torments have no relief, they admit of no ease.