A39675:1608
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.
3. Dare any of you give the thoughts of your hearts as certain conclusions under your hand, and stand by them to the last, and venture all upon them?
Wretched Atheist, bethink thy self, pause a while, examine thine own breast, whatever thy vile Atheistical thoughts sometimes are, is there not at other times a fear of the contrary? A jealousy that all these things which thou deridest and sportest thy wicked fancy with, may and will prove true at last? When thou readest, or hearest that Text, Joh. 3.18. He that believeth not, is condemned already; His Mittimus is already made for Hell: Doth not thy Conscience give thee a secret gird, like a stitch in thy side? Dare you venture all upon this issue, that if those things you find in the Word be true, you will stand to the hazard of them? If that be a truth, Mark 16.16. He that believeth not, shall be damned, you will be content to be damned? Or if, Rom. 8.13. be a truth, That they which live after the flesh shall dye, you will run the hazard and bear the penalty of eternal death? If Heb. 12.14. prove true, That without holiness no man shall see God, you will be content to be banished from his presence for evermore? Speak your hearts in this matter, and tell us, Don't you live betwixt Atheistical surmises, that all these are but cunning artifices; and fears that at last they will prove the greatest Verities?
Wretched Atheist, bethink thy self, pause a while, examine thine own breast, whatever thy vile Atheistical thoughts sometimes are, is there not at other times a fear of the contrary? A jealousie that all these things which thou deridest and sportest thy wicked fancy with, may and will prove true at last? When thou readest, or hearest that Text,