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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.
Augustine tells us of a man so weak and simple, that he was commonly reputed a Fool in all the Neighbourhood; and yet saith, I believe the grace and fear of God was in him: for when he heard any to swear, or take the Name of God in vain, he would throw stones at them, and show his indignation against sin, by all the signs he could make.
Augustine tells us of a man so weak and simple, that he was commonly reputed a Fool in all the Neighbourhood; and yet saith, I believe the grace and fear of God was in him: for when he heard any to swear, or take the Name of God in vain, he would throw stones at them, and shew his indignation against sin, by all the signs he could make.
2. You that are so grossly ignorant in the matters of your Salvation, are many of you very knowing, prudent, and subtle persons in the affairs of the world, Luke 16.8. The children of this world are wiser in their generation, than the children ⟨p. 405⟩of light. Had those parts, which you have, been improved and heightened by study and observation about spirituals, as they have been about earthly things, you had neither been so ignorant or dead-hearted as you are; you might have been as well versed in your Bibles, as you are in the Almanacs you yearly buy and study; you might have understood the proper seasons of Salvation, as well as of Husbandry▪ The great and necessary points on which your Salvation depends, are not so many, or so abstruse and intricate, but your plain and inartificial heads might have understood them, and that with less pains than you have been at for your bodies. What though you cannot comprehend the subtleties of Schoolmen, you may apprehend the Essentials of Christianity. If you cannot strictly and scholastically define Faith, what hinders, if your hearts were set upon Christ and Salvation, but you may feel it, which is more than many learned men do that can define and dispute about it. You cannot put an Argument in Mood and Figure, no matter, if you can by comparing your Bibles and hearts together draw savingly and experimentally this conclusion: I am in Christ, and my sins are pardoned You cannot determine whether Faith goes before Repentance, or Repentance before Faith; but for all that you might feel both the one and the other upon your own Souls, which is infinitely better. 'Tis not therefore your incapacity, but negligence and worldliness that is your ruin.