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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.
That they have 1. That Grace which they have not. 2. That Mercy in God they will not find. 3. That Time before them which will fail them.
1. Many presume they have that Grace in them, which God knoweth they have not: So did Laodicea, Rev. 3.17. Thou sayest, I am rich, and have need of nothing, and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable, poor, blind and naked. Here is a dangerous Conspiracy betwixt a cunning Devil, and an ignorant proud Heart, to ruin the Soul for ever: they stamp their common Grace for special: they put the old Creature, by a general Profession, into the new Creatures habit, and lay a confident claim to all the Privileges of the Children of God.
1. Many presume they have that Grace in them, which God knoweth they have not: So did Laodicea, Rev. 3.17. Thou sayest, I am rich, and have need of nothing, and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable, poor, blind and naked. Here is a dangerous Conspiracy betwixt a cunning Devil, and an ignorant proud Heart, to ruine the Soul for ever: they stamp their common Grace for special: they put the old Creature, by a general Profession, into the new Creatures habit, and lay a confident claim to all the Priviledges of the Children of God.