A39675:1698
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.
Argument II.
Secondly, The consideration of the uncertainty and slippery nature of these spiritual seasons must awaken in us all care and diligence to secure and improve them. This nick of opportunity is tempus labile, a slippery season; it is but short in it self, and very uncertain. To day▪ whilst it is said to day (saith the Apostle) if ye will hear his voice, Heb. 3.15. q. d. you have now a short, uncertain, but most precious and valuable season for your Souls, lay hold on it, whilst it is called to day; for if this season be let slip, the time to come is called by another name; that is, not to day, but to morrow. Your time is the present time, take heed of procrastinating and putting it off till that which is called to day (which is your only season) be past and gone. This precious inch ⟨p. 458⟩of time, though it be more worth than all the other greater parts and portions of your time; yet it is as much in fluxu, in hasty motion and expense as other parts of time are: and being once lost, is never more to be recalled or recovered. Few men know or understand it whilst it is current: other seasons for natural or civil actions are known and stated, but the time of Grace is not so easily discerned, and therefore commonly mistaken and lost: and this comes to pass partly through 1. Presumptuous Hopes. 2. Discouraging Fears.
SEcondly, The consideration of the uncertainty and slippery nature of these spiritual seasons must awaken in us all care and diligence to secure and improve them. This nick of opportunity is tempus labile, a slippery season; it is but short in it self, and very uncertain. To day▪ whilst it is said to day (saith the Apostle) if ye will hear his voice,