A39675:1657
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 III.
Hence let us estimate the evil of sin, and see what a dreadful thing that is which men commonly sport themselves with, and make so light of: it is not only a wrong and injury to the Soul, but the loss and utter ruin of the Soul for ever.
HEnce let us estimate the evil of sin, and see what a dreadful thing that is which men commonly sport themselves with, and make so light of: it is not only a wrong and injury to the Soul, but the loss and utter ruine of the Soul for ever.
It is said, Prov. 8.36. He that sinneth against me, wrongeth his own soul: And if this were all the mischief sin did us, it were bad enough, a wrong to the Soul is a greater evil than the ruin of the body or estate, and all the outward enjoyments of this life can be: but to lose the precious Soul, and destroy it to all Eternity, O who can estimate such a loss! Now the result and last effect of sin is death, the death of the precious Soul, Rom. 6.21. The end of those things is death. So Ezek. 18.4. The soul that sinneth shall dye.
It is said, Prov. 8.36. He that sinneth against me, wrongeth his own soul: And if this were all the mischief sin did us, it were bad enough, a wrong to the Soul is a greater evil than the ruine of the body or estate, and all the outward enjoyments of this life can be: but to lose the precious Soul, and destroy it to all Eternity, O who can estimate such a loss! Now the result and last effect of sin is death, the death of the precious Soul,