A39675:1684
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.
God hangs the great things of Eternity upon the small wires of times and seasons in this world: that may be done ⟨p. 452⟩or neglected in a day, which may be the ground-work of joy or sorrow to all Eternity. There is a nick of opportunity which gives both success and facility to the great and weighty affairs of the Soul, as well as body: to come before it, is to seek the bird before it be hatched; and to come after it, is to seek it when it is fled. There is a twofold season or opportunity of Salvation: 1. One was Christs season for the Purchase of it. 2. The other is ours for the Application of it.
God hangs the great things of Eternity upon the small wyers of times and seasons in this world: that may be done ⟨p. 452⟩or neglected in a day, which may be the ground-work of joy or sorrow to all Eternity. There is a nick of opportunity which gives both success and facility to the great and weighty affairs of the Soul, as well as body: to come before it, is to seek the bird before it be hatcht; and to come after it, is to seek it when it is fled. There is a twofold season or opportunity of Salvation: 1. One was Christs season for the Purchace of it. 2. The other is ours for the Application of it.
1. Christ had a season assigned him for the impetration and purchase of our Salvation; so you hear his Father bespeaking him, Isa. 49.8. Thus saith the Lord, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: [Greek or Hebrew], in tempore opportuno voluntatis, vel placito. It was the wisdom of the Lord Jesus Christ to set in with the Fathers time, to comply with his season; and it became a day of Salvation, because it was the acceptable time which Christ took for it.
1. Christ had a season assigned him for the impetration and purchace of our Salvation; so you hear his Father bespeaking him,