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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 IX.
TO conclude, If the Soul be so invaluably precious, how great and irreparable a loss must the loss of a Soul to all Eternity be!
There is a double loss of the Soul of man, the one in Adam, which loss is recoverable by Christ; the other by final impenitence and unbelief, cutting it off from Christ, and this is irreparable and irrecoverable. Souls lost by Adams sin are within the reach of the arms of Christ; but in the shipwreck of personal infidelity there is no plank to save the Soul so cast away: Of all losses this is the most lamentable, yet what more common? O what a shriek doth the unregenerate Soul make, when it sees whereto it must, and that there is no remedy! Three cries are dreadful to hear on Earth, yet all three are drowned by a more terrible cry in the other World. The cry of a condemned Prisoner at the Bar, the cry of drowning Seamen and Passengers in a shipwreck, the cries of Soldiers conquered in the field; all these are fearful cries, yet nothing to that of a Soul cast away to all Eternity, and lost in the depth of Hell.
There is a double loss of the Soul of man, the one in Adam, which loss is recoverable by Christ; the other by final impenitence and unbelief, cutting it off from Christ, and this is irreparable and irrecoverable. Souls lost by Adams sin are within the reach of the arms of Christ; but in the shipwrack of personal infidelity there is no plank to save the Soul so cast away: Of all losses this is the most lamentable, yet what more common? O what a shrlek doth the unregenerate Soul make, when it sees whereto it must, and that there is no remedy! Three cries are dreadful to hear on Earth, yet all three are drown'd by a more terrible cry in the other World. The cry of a condemned Prisoner at the Bar, the cry of drowning Seamen and Passengers in a shipwrack, the cries of Souldiers conquer'd in the field; all these are fearful cries, yet nothing to that of a Soul cast away to all Eternity, and lost in the depth of Hell.