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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.
The second way to Hell discovered.
II. A second way to Hell in which multitudes are found hastening to their own damnation, is the way of affected ignorance. The generality of people, even in a Land enlightened with the Gospel, are found grossly ignorant of Christ, the true and only way to Heaven, and of Repentance and Faith, the only way to Christ; and thus the people perish for want of knowledge, Hosea 4.6. If the Tree of Knowledge had been hedged in from the common people, as it is in Popish Countries; and it had been criminal to find a Bible in our houses, there might have been some cloak and pretence for our ignorance; but to be stupidly ignorant of the most obvious, plain and necessary Truths, a•• yet bred up among Bibles and Ministers, O how ominous a darkness is this, forboding the blackness of darkness for ever! For if the hiding of the Gospel from the hearts of men be a token to them that they are lost Souls, how much notional light soever they may have, much more must they be lost to all intents, from whose heads and hearts too it is judicially hidden. They ⟨p. 403⟩that know not God, are in the Catalogue of the damned, 2 Thess. 1.8. and if this be life eternal to know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent, then this must be death eternal to be grossly and affectedly ignorant both of God the […], and Christ the Way, by the Rule of true Opposition, Joh. 17.3.
II. A second way to Hell in which multitudes are found hastening to their own dmnation, is the way of affected ignorance. The generality of people, even in a Land enlightned with the Gospel, are found grosly ignorant of Christ, the true and only way to Heaven, and of Repentance and Faith, the only way to Christ; and thus the people perish for want of knowledge,