A39675:1590
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.
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.
2. They presume upon such Mercy in God, as they will never find: they expect pardoning and saving Mercy out of Christ, in an unregenerate state, when there is not one drop of Mercy dispensed in any other way. The whole economy of Grace is managed by the Mediator, Jude v. 21. all saving Mercies come through him, upon all that are in him, and upon no others. God is indeed a merciful God, and yet presumptuous sinners will find Judgment without Mercy, because they are not found in the proper way and method of Mercy. Thousands and ten thousands carve out and dispose the Mercy of God at their own pleasure, write their own Pardons in what Terms they think fit; and if they had Gods Seal to firm and ratify them, it were all well: but alas! it is but a night-vision, a dream of their own brain.