A39675:1625
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.
And how many Professors, who pretend to more than ordinary reformation and holiness, do shed Soul blood by their scandalous conversations? Salvian brings in the wicked of his Age upbraiding the looseness of Christians in this manner: Behold, those men who boast themselves redeemed from the Tyranny of Satan, and profess themselves dead to the world, yet are conquered by the lusts of it. And Cyprian long before his day, brings in the Heathens thus insulting over looser Christians, Where is that Catholic Law which they believe? Where are the Examples of Piety and Chastity which they should learn? They read the Gospel, yet are immodest; they hear the Apostles, yet are drunk. O Professors, where are your bowels to the poor Souls of sinners? If your Neighbours ⟨p. 433⟩Ox or Ass fall into the pit, you are bound to deliver him, if you can; and will you not do as much for a precious Soul, as you would do for a Beast? Nay, you dig pits by your scandalous lives to destroy them. If you sin, there are instruments enough to spread it, and multitudes of Souls ready prepared to take the infection. Say not, f they do, the fault is theirs; for though they are Principals in the murder of their own Souls by taking the scandal, yet you are Accessories in giving it: he is a mad man that will kill himself with a Sword, and he no better that will put it into his hand.
And how many Professors, who pretend to more than ordinary reformation and holiness, do shed Soul blood by their scandalous conversations? Salvian brings in the wicked of his Age upraiding the loosness of Christians in this manner: Behold, those men who boast themselves redeemed from the Tyranny of Satan, and profess themselves dead to the world, yet are conquer'd by the lusts of it. And Cyprian long before his day, brings in the Heathens thus insulting over looser Christians, Where is that Catholick Law which they believe? Where are the Examples of Piety and Chastity which they should learn? They read the Gospel, yet are immodest; they hear the Apostles, yet are drunk. O Professors, where are your bowels to the poor Souls of sinners? If your Neighbours ⟨p. 433⟩Ox or Ass fall into the pit, you are bound to deliver him, if you can; and will you not do as much for a precious Soul, as you would do for a Beast? Nay, you dig pits by your scandalous lives to destroy them. If you sin, there are instruments enough to spread it, and multitudes of Souls ready perpared to take the infection. Say not, f they do, the fault is theirs; for though they are Principals in the murder of their own Souls by taking the scandal, yet you are Accessaries in giving it: he is a mad man that will kill himself with a Sword, and he no better that will put it into his hand.