A39675:1712
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 V.
IF we set any value upon the true pleasure of life, or solid comfort of our Souls at death, let us by no means neglect the special seasons and opportunities of Salvation we now enjoy.
IF we set any value upon the true pleasure of life, or solid comfor• of our Souls at death, let us by no means neglect the special seasons and opportunities of Salvation we now enjoy.
These two things, the pleasure of life, and comfort in death should be prized by every man more than his two eyes: certainly no Being at all is more desirable than a Being without these: take away the true spiritual pleasure of life, and you level the life of man with the beast that perisheth: and take ⟨p. 461⟩away the hope and comfort of the Soul in death, and you sink him infinitely below the beast, and make him a Being only capable of misery for ever.
Now there can be no true spiritual pleasure found in that Soul that hath neglected and lost his only season of Salvation: all the solid delight and comfort of life results from the settlement and security of a mans great concern in the proper season thereof. The true mirth of the converted Prodigal bears date from the time of his return and reconciliation to his Father,