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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 fourth way to Hell shut up, by two Considerations.
1. First, Let it be considered; the longer any man hath been engaged in, and accustomed to the way of sin, the more reason and need that man hath speedily and without delay to repent, and reform his course; there is yet a possibility of mercy, a season of Salvation left, how far soever a Soul be gone on towards Hell: none can say it is yet too late. When Mr. Bilney the Martyr heard a Minister preaching thus, O thou old Sinner, that hast gone on in a course of sin these fifty or sixty years, dost thou think that Christ will accept thee now? or take the Devils leavings? Good God! said he, what preaching of Christ is here? Had such Doctrine been preached to me in the day of my troubles, it had been enough utterly to have discouraged me from Repentance and Faith. No, no, Sinner, it is not yet too late, if at last thy heart be touched with a real sense of thy sin and danger: the word is plain, Isa. 55.7. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
An abundant pardon thou needest; thy sins by long continued custom and frequent repetitions have been abundantly aggravated; and an abundant pardon is with God for poor sinners: he will abundantly pardon, but then thou must come up to his terms; thou must not expect pardon or mercy, when thy sins have forsaken thee, but upon thy forsaking them: yea, such a forsaking as includes a resolution or decree in thy will to return to them no more,