A39675:1628
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.
First, Very many of those Scandals bandied up and down the World against the Professors of Godliness, are devised and forged in Hell, as so many traps and snares to catch and destroy mens Souls, to beget an irreconcilable aversation and enmity in men to the ways of God. They devise deceitful matters (saith the Psalmist) against them that are quiet in the land, Psal. 35.20. So Jer. 18.18. Come, say they, let us devise devices against Jeremiah, and smite him with the tongue. And there is as as little equity in the credulous receiver, as there is honesty in the wicked forger of these slanders. With one arrow of censure you wound no less than three, viz. the honour of God, your innocent Brother, and your own Souls: as to the two former wounds, they will in due time be healed. God will vindicate his own Name fully, and the reputation of his innocent Servants shall be cleared and repaired abundantly; but mean time your Souls may perish by the wounds, prejudices have given, so that you may never be reconciled to Godliness and its Professors whilst you live, but turn Scoffers and Persecutors of them.
First, Very many of those Scandals bandied up and down the World against the Professors of Godliness, are devised and forged in Hell, as so many traps and snares to catch and destroy mens Souls, to beget an irreconcileable aversation and enmity in men to the ways of God. They devise deceitful matters (saith the Psalmist) against them that are quiet in the land, Psal. 35.20. So Ier. 18.18. Come, say they, let us devise devices against Ieremiah, and smite him with the tongue. And there is as as little equity in the credulous receiver, as there is honesty in the wicked forger of these slanders. With one arrow of censure you wound no less than three, viz. the honour of God, your innocent Brother, and your own Souls: as to the two former wounds, they will in due time be healed. God will vindicate his own Name fully, and the reputation of his innocent Servants shall be cleared and repaired abundantly; but mean time your Souls may perish by the wounds, prejudices have given, so that you may never be reconciled to Godliness and its Professors whilst you live, but turn Scoffers and Persecutors of them.