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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 shut up.
1. Let the ignorant consider, God hath created their Souls with a capacity of knowing him and enjoying him, as well as others that are famed in the world for knowledge and wisdom▪ There is a spirit in man, and the inspiration of the Al••••••, giveth them understanding. The faculty is in man, but the wisdom and knowledge that enlightens it, is from God, as the Dial shows the hour of the day, when the Sunbeams fall upon it. If therefore God be sought unto in the use of such helps and means as you have, even the weakest and dullest Soul hath a capacity of being made wise unto Salvation, Psal. 19.7. The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.
1. Let the ignorant consider, God hath created their Souls with a capacity of knowing him and enjoying him, as well as others that are fam'd in the world for knowledge and wisdom▪ There is a spirit in man, and the inspiration of the Al••••••, giveth them understanding. The faculty is in man, but the wisdom and knowledge that enlightens it, is from God, as the Dial shews the hour of the day, when the Sunbeams fall upon it. If therefore God be sought unto in the use of such helps and means as you have, even the weakest and dullest Soul hath a capacity of being made wise unto Salvation, Psal. 19.7. The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.