A39675:1685
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.
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, 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: 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, 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.
2. Men have their seasons and opportunities for the application of Christ, and his benefits to their own Souls: 2 Cor. 6.1, 2. We then as workers together with God beseech you also, that you receive not the grace of God in vain; for he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee. Behold, now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation. He exhorts the Corinthians not to dally or trifle any longer in the great concerns of their Salvation; for now, saith he, is your day. Christ had his day to purchase it, and he procured a day also for you to apply it, and this is that day; you enjoy it, you live under it: that golden day is now running, O see that you frustrate not the design thereof, by receiving the Gospel-grace in vain.