A39675:1633
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 eleventh way of ruining the precious Soul opened.
XI. The eleventh way wherein abundance of precious Souls perish in the Christianized and professing World, is the way of formal Hypocrisy in Religion, and Zeal about the Externals of Worship. Such a generation of men have in all Ages mingled themselves with the sincere Worshippers of God; and the inducement to it is obvious, the form of Godliness is an honour, but the power of it a burden. By the former earthly interests are accommodated, by the latter they are frequently exposed and hazarded.
XI. The eleventh way wherein abundance of precious Souls perish in the Christianized and professing World, is the way of formal Hypocrisie in Religion, and Zeal about the Externals of Worship. Such a generation of men have in all Ages mingled themselves with the sincere Worshippers of God; and the inducement to it is obvious, the form of Godliness is an honour, but the power of it a burden. By the former earthly interests are accommodated, by the latter they are frequently exposed and hazarded.
We find in the Jewish Church abundance of such chaff intermixed with the wheat, which the Doctrine of Christ discovered and purged out of the floor, Matth. 3.9, 12. Such were the Pharisees, who were exceeding zealous for Traditions and the external Rites and Ceremonies of the Law, but inwardly full of all filthiness,