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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 sixth way to Hell shut up by five Considerations.
1. Bethink thy self, poor Soul, as much as thou art involved and plunged in the necessities and distracting cares of this life, others, many others, as poor, as necessitous, and every way as much embroiled in the cares of the world as you are, have minded their Souls, and taken all care and pains for their Salvation notwithstanding; yea, though millions ⟨p. 417⟩of your rank and order are destroyed by these snares of the Devil, yet God hath a very great number, indeed the greatest of any rank of men, among those that are low, poor, and necessitous in the world. The Church is called the Congregation of the poor, Psal. 74.20. because it consisteth mostly of men and women of the lowest and most despicable condition in this world. They are all poor in Spirit, and most of them poor in purse. Hearken, my beloved Brethren, (saith James) hath not God chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom? Jam. 2.5.
1. Bethink thy self, poor Soul, as much as thou art involved and plunged in the necessities and distracting cares of this life, others, many others, as poor, as necessitous, and every way as much embroil'd in the cares of the world as you are, have minded their Souls, and taken all care and pains for their Salvation notwithstanding; yea, though millions ⟨p. 417⟩of your rank and order are destroyed by these snares of the Devil, yet God hath a very great number, indeed the greatest of any rank of men, among those that are low, poor, and necessitous in the world. The Church is called the Congregation of the poor,