A39675:1654
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.
Inference II.
HOW little reason have the Unregenerate to glory and boast themselves in their earthly acquisitions and successes, whilst mean time their Souls are lost! they have gotten other things, but lost their Souls. 'Tis strange to see how some men by rolling a small Fortune up and down the World, (as Boys do a Snow-ball) have increased the heap, and raised a great Estate, they have attained their design and aim in the world, and hug themselves in the pleased thoughts of their happiness: but alas! among all the thoughts of their gains, there is not one thought of what they have lost. O if such a thought as this could find room in their hearts, I have indeed gotten an Estate, but I have lost my Soul: I have much of the world, but nothing of Christ: Gold and Silver I have, but Grace, peace, and pardon I have not: my body is well provided for, but my Soul is naked, empty, and destitute: such a thought, like the Sentence written on the wall, would make their hearts quail within them. What a rapture and transport of joy did the sight of a full Barn cast that Worldling into? Luke 12.19, 20. Soul, take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry; little dreaming that death was just then at the door to take away the cloth, guest, and all together; that the next hour his Friends would be scrambling for his Estate, the Worms for his body, and the Devils for his Soul.
HOW little reason have the Vnregenerate to glory and boast themselves in their earthly acquisitions and successes, whilst mean time their Souls are lost! they have gotten other things, but lost their Souls. 'Tis strange to see how some men by rolling a small Fortune up and down the World, (as Boys do a Snow-ball) have increased the heap, and raised a great Estate, they have attained their design and aim in the world, and hug themselves in the pleased thoughts of their happiness: but alas! among all the thoughts of their gains, there is not one thought of what they have lost. O if such a thought as this could find room in their hearts, I have indeed gotten an Estate, but I have lost my Soul: I have much of the world, but nothing of Christ: Gold and Silver I have, but Grace, peace, and pardon I have not: my body is well provided for, but my Soul is naked, empty, and destitute: such a thought, like the Sentence written on the wall, would make their hearts quail within them. What a rapture and transport of joy did the sight of a full Barn cast that Worldling into?