A39675:1607
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.
2. If you assent not to the Truth of the Gospel, you not only make God speak to your Souls in vain, which is fatal to them; but you also make God a liar, which is the greatest affront a Creature can put upon his Maker: 1 Joh. 5.10. He that believeth not God, hath made him a liar. Vile dust, darest thou rise up against the God that made thee, and give him the lye! An affront which thy fellow-Creature cannot put up or bear at thy hands. Darest thou at once stab his Honour, and thy own Soul? Are not the things which thou lookest on as Romances and golden Dreams, a mere Artifice neatly contrived to cheat and awe the world? Are they not all built upon the Veracity of God? which is the firmest foundation and greatest security in the world. Hath he not intermingled for our satisfaction, not only frequent assertions, but his asseverations and Oath to put all beyond doubt? And yet dare any of you lift up your ignorant blind Understandings against all this, and give him the lye? Surely the wrath of God shall smoke against every Soul of man that doth so, and his own bitter, lamentable, doleful experience shall be his conviction shortly, except he repent.
2. If you assent not to the Truth of the Gospel, you not only make God speak to your Souls in vain, which is fatal to them; but you also make God a lyar, which is the greatest affront a Creature can put upon his Maker: 1 Ioh. 5.10. He that believeth not God, hath made him a lyar. Vile dust, darest thou rise up against the God that made thee, and give him the lye! An affront which thy fellow-Creature cannot put up or bear at thy hands. Darest thou at once stab his Honour, and thy own Soul? Are not the things which thou lookest on as Romances and golden Dreams, a meer Artifice neatly contrived to cheat and awe the world? Are they not all built upon the Veracity of God? which is the firmest foundation and greatest security in the world. Hath he not intermingled for our satisfaction, not only frequent assertions, but his asseverations and Oath to put all beyond doubt? And yet dare any of you lift up your ignorant blind Understandings against all this, and give him the lye? Surely the wrath of God shall smoke against every Soul of man that doth so, and his own bitter, lamentable, doleful experience shall be his conviction shortly, except he repent.