A39675:1613
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 ninth way to Hell by Profaneness stopped.
The ninth way to Hell by Prophaneness stopt.
1. And first, Let it be laid to heart, that though the case and state of many thousand Souls be doubtful and uncertain, so that neither themselves nor any other know what they are, or to whom they belong: yet our condition is without controversy miserable and forlorn, all men know whose you are, and whither you are going. The Apostle appeals in this case to the Bar of every mans Reason and Conscience, as a thing allowed and yielded by all, Eph. 5.5. For this ye know (saith he) that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an Idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. This is a clear case, there is no controversy about it. Many there be in a doubtful case, but no doubt of these, they are fast and sure in the power of Satan; and as sure as God is a God of Truth, they that die in this condition shall never see his face. And to the same purpose again, 1 Cor. 6.9. Know ye not, that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of God. Know ye not? saith he, q. d. Sure you cannot be so ignorant and blind to think that there is any room in Heaven for such wretches as these. If the righteous be scarcely saved, where shall the sinner and the ungodly appear? If all strictness, holiness, self-denial, diligence, be all little enough to win Heaven, ⟨p. 430⟩