A39675:1716
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 VI.
Neglect no season of Salvation which is graciously afforded you, because your time is short, Death and Eternity are at the door. You know that you must shortly put off these Tabernacles, 2 Pet. 1.13, 14. that when a few years are come, you shall go the way whence you shall not return, Job 16.22. All the living are listed Soldiers, and must conflict hand to hand with that dreadful Enemy Death, and there is no discharge in that War, Eccles. 8.8. It will ⟨p. 462⟩be in vain to say you are not willing to dye, for willing or unwilling, away you must go when Death calls you. It will be as vain to say you are not ready, for ready or unready, you must be gone when Death comes, your readiness to dye would indeed be a Cordial to your hearts in death; but then you must improve and ply the time of life, and husband your opportunities diligently: carelessness of life and readiness for death are inconsistent and exclusive of each other: the Bed is sweeter to none than to the hard Labourer, and the Grave comfortable to none but the laborious Christian: you know nothing can be done by you after death; the Compositum is then dissolved; you cease to be what you were, to enjoy the means you had, and to work as you did. O therefore slip not the only season you have both of attaining the end of life, and escaping the danger and hour of death.
NEglect no season of Salvation which is graciously afforded you, because your time is short, Death and Eternity are at the door. You know that you must shortly put off these Tabernacles,