A39675:1638
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 way to Hell by Formality barred up.
1. No sin entangles the Souls of men faster, or damns them with more certainty and aggravation, than the sin of formal Hypocrisy. It holds the Soul fastest on Earth, and sinks it deepest into Hell. There was no sort of men upon whom the Doctrine of Christ and the Apostles had so little success and effect, as the Scribes and Pharisees: they derided him, when Publicans and sinners trembled and believed, Luke 16.14, 15. the form of Godliness wards off all convictions: their zeal for the Externals of Religion secures them against the fears of damnation, whilst in the mean while their Hypocrisy plunges them deeper into Hell, than others that never made such shows of Sanctimony and Devotion: He shall appoint him his portion with hypocrites, Matt. 24.51. that is, he shall be punished in Hell as Hypocrites are punished, viz. with the greatest and forest punishment. Hypocrisy is a double iniquity, and will be punished with double destruction: their ungrounded hopes of Heaven serve but to pulley up their wretched Souls to a greater height of vain confidence, which gives them the more dreadful jerk in their lamentable and eternal disappointment.
1. No sin intangles the Souls of men faster, or damns them with more certainty and aggravation, than the sin of formal Hypocrisie. It holds the Soul fastest on Earth, and sinks it deepest into Hell. There was no sort of men upon whom the Doctrine of Christ and the Apostles had so little success and effect, as the Scribes and Pharisees: they derided him, when Publicans and sinners trembled and believed, Luke 16.14, 15. the form of Godliness wards off all convictions: their zeal for the Externals of Religion secures them against the fears of damnation, whilst in the mean while their Hypocrisie plunges them deeper into Hell, than others that never made such shews of Sanctimony and Devotion: He shall appoint him his portion with hypocrites,