A39675:1641
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 twelfth way to Hell opened.
XII. The twelfth way to Hell, in which many Souls are carried on smoothly and securely to their own destruction, is the way of mere Civility and moral Honesty, wherein men rest, as in a safe state, never doubting but a civil life will produce and issue into an happy death. Moral honesty is a lovely thing, and greatly tends to the peace and order of the World; but it is not saving Grace, nor gives any man a ⟨p. 439⟩good Title to Christ and Salvation. Indeed there can be no Grace in that Soul, in which Civility and moral Honesty is not found; but this may be found in thousands that have no Grace.
XII. The twelfth way to Hell, in which many Souls are carried on smoothly and securely to their own destruction, is the way of meer Civility and moral Honesty, wherein men rest, as in a safe state, never doubting but a civil life will produce and issue into an happy death. Moral honesty is a lovely thing, and greatly tends to the peace and order of the World; but it is not saving Grace, nor gives any man a ⟨p. 439⟩good Title to Christ and Salvation. Indeed there can be no Grace in that Soul, in which Civility and moral Honesty is not found; but this may be found in thousands that have no Grace.