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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 eighth way of losing the Soul opened.
VIII. The eighth way of ruining the precious Soul, is by drinking in the Principles of Atheism, and living without God in the World.
Atheism stabs the Soul to death at one stroke, and puts it quite out of the way of Salvation. Other Sinners are worse than Beasts, but Atheists are worse than Devils, for they believe and tremble: these banish God out of their thoughts, and what they can out of the world, living as without God in the world, Eph. 2.12. It is a sin that quencheth all Religion in the Soul: he that knows not his Landlord, cannot pay his Rent: he that assents not to the Being of a God, destroys the foundation of all religious Worship; he cannot fear, love, or obey him, whose Being be believes not: this sin strikes at the Life of God, and destroys the life of the Soul.