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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
MATTH. 16.26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole… › Doctrine 2: DOCT. II.
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.
How precious and invaluable soever the Soul of man is, it may be lost, and cast away for ever.
This Proposition is supposed and implied in our Saviours words in the Text, and plainly expressed in Matth. 7.13. Wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat. The way to Hell is thronged with Passengers, 'tis a beaten rode, one draws another along with him, and scoffs at those that are afraid to follow: 1 Pet. 4.4. Facilis descensus Averni; 'tis pleasant sailing with the Wind and Tide.1 Some derive the word Hell from a Verb which signifies to carry or thrust in, millions go in, but none return thence: millions are gone down already, and millions more are coming after as fast as Satan and their own lusts can hurry them onward. You read not only of single persons, but whole Nations drowned in this Gulf, Psal. 9.17. The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. How rare is the conversion of a Soul ⟨p. 396⟩in the dark places of the Earth, where the sound of the Gospel is not heard, the Devil drives them along in huge droves to destruction, scarce a man reluctating or hanging back.
This Proposition is supposed and implied in our Saviours words in the Text, and plainly expressed in Matth. 7.13. Wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat. The way to Hell is throng'd with Passengers, 'tis a beaten rode, one draws another along with him, and scoffs at those that are afraid to follow: