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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.
But O if the Spirit of God would please to set on and follow home the following Considerations to your hearts, you would certainly resolve to take a persecuted path to Heaven, though few accompany you therein, rather than to swim like dead fishes with the stream into the dead Sea of eternal misery.
1. Though you go with the consent and current of the World, yet you go against the express Law and prohibition of God. He hath laid his command upon you, not to be conformed to the world, Rom. 12.2. That you live not the rest of your time to the lusts of men, but to the will of God, 1 Pet. 4.2. That you follow not a multitude to do evil, Exod. 23.2. That you go not in the way of evil men, Prov. 4.14. That you have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness. All these and many more are commands flowing from the highest Sovereign Authority, obliging your Consciences to obedience under the greatest penalties; by them your state must be cast to all Eternity in the Day of Judgment: you may make a pish of the precept, but see if you can do so of the penalty.
1. Though you go with the consent and current of the World, yet you go against the express Law and prohibition of God. He hath laid his command upon you, not to be conformed to the world, Rom. 12.2. That you live not the rest of your time to the lusts of men, but to the will of God, 1 Pet. 4.2. That you follow not a multitude to do evil, Exod. 23.2. That you go not in the way of evil men,