A39675:1592
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 seventh way to destruction shut up by five weighty Considerations.
1. And in the first place, I would beg all those young voluptuous Sinners, whose feet are fast held in the snare of this Temptation, seriously to bethink themselves, whether they are not old enough to be damned, whilst they judge themselves too young to be seriously godly. There are multitudes in Hell of your age and size: you may find Graves in the Church-yard of your own length, and Skulls of your own size. Men will not spare a nest of young Snakes, because they are little. If you die Christless and unregenerate, 'tis the same thing whether you be old or young: there is abundance of young Spray, as well as old Logs, burning in the flames of Hell.
2. If you knew the weight and difficulty of Salvation-work, you would never think you could begin too soon. Religion is a business will take up all your time:1 many have repented they began so late, none that they began too soon. Say not, the penitent Thief found mercy at the last hour, for his Conversion was extraordinary, and we must not hope for Miracles. Besides, he could never encourage himself in sin with the hope and expectation of such a miraculous Conversion. He was the only Example of a Sinner that was ever so recovered in Scripture, and this was recorded not to nourish presumption, but to prevent despair. If ten thousand persons died of the Plague, and one only of the whole number infected with it escaped, it's no great encouragement that you shall make the second. O think and think again, how many thousands now on earth have been tugging and striving