A39675:1621
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 tenth way of destroying Souls shut up by two Counsels.
1. It will be impossible to prevent the ruin of a great part of the World by prejudices against the ways of Godliness, except those that profess them, walk more holily and conformably to the rule and pattern of Christ, whose Name is called upon them. I therefore shall first address my Discourse to the Professors of Religion, beseeching them in the bowels of Christ, to take pity upon the multitudes of Souls which are daily ruined and destroyed by their scandals and miscarriages. Did you live according to the rules you profess. your well-doing would put to silence the ignorance of foolish men, 1 Pet. 2.15. and consequently the ruin of many might be prevented. I remember Bernard speaking of the lewd and loose life of the Priests of his time, sighs out this just and bitter complaint to God about it;1 Misera eorum conversatio plebis tuae miserabilis subversio est: O Lord, saith he, their miserable conversation is the miserable subversion of thy people. O of how many who glory in the Title of the Sons of the Church,2 may Christ say, as Jacob did of his two lewd Sons Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me, to make me to stink among the Inhabitants of the Land, Gen. 34.30.
1. It will be impossible to prevent the ruine of a great part of the World by prejudices against the ways of Godliness, except those that profess them, walk more holily and conformably to the rule and pattern of Christ, whose Name is called upon them. I therefore shall first address my Discourse to the Professors of Religion, beseeching them in the bowels of Christ, to take pity upon the multitudes of Souls which are daily ruined and destroyed by their scandals and miscarriages. Did you live according to the rules you profess. your well-doing would put to silence the ignorance of foolish men,