A39675:1669
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 V.
IF there be so many ways to Hell, and so few that escape it, how are all concerned to strive to the uttermost in order to their own Salvation.
In Luke 13.23. a certain person proposed a curious question to Christ, Lord, are there few that be saved? He saw a multitude flocking to Christ, and thronging with great zeal to hear him, and he could not conceive but Heaven must fill proportionably to the numbers he saw in the way thither: but Christs answer, ver. 24. at once rebukes the curiosity of the Questionist, fully solves the question propounded, and sets home his own duty and greatest concernment upon him. It rebukes his curiosity, and is as if he should say, Be the number of the saved more or less, what is that to thee? strive thou to be one of them. It fully solves the question ⟨p. 447⟩propounded, by distinguishing those that attend upon the means of Salvation, into Seekers and Strivers. In the first respect there are many who by a cheap and easy profession seek Heaven, but take them under the notion of Strivers (i. e.) persons heartily engaged in Religion, and who make it their business, and so they will shrink up into a small number; and it presseth home his great business and concern upon him, Strive to enter in at the strait gate.