A39675:1721
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.
I shall close all with a word of Exhortation, persuading (if it be possible) the careless and unthinking Neglecters of their precious Time and Souls, to awaken out of that deep and dangerous security in which they lye fast asleep upon the very brink of Eternity: and to day, whilst it is yet called to day, to hear the Voice of God calling them to Repentance and Faith, and thereby to Christ and everlasting Blessedness. Behold, he yet standeth at the door and knocks, Rev. 3.20. the door of Hope is not yet finally shut, there are yet some stirrings at certain times in mens Consciences; God comes near them in his Word, and in some rousing acts of Providence, the death of a near Relation, the seizure of a dangerous Disease, the blasting and disappointment of a mans great Design and Project for this World, a fall into some notorious Sin; these and many such like Methods of Providence, as well as the convincing voice of the Word, have the efficacy of an awaking voice to mens drowsy Consciences; and if careless Sinners would but attend to them, and follow home those motions they make upon their hearts, who knows to what these weak beginnings might arise and prosper. The Souls of men are as it were embarked in the ⟨p. 463⟩Calls of God, your life is bound up in them; if these be lost, your Souls are lost; if these abide upon you, and grow up to sound Conversion, you are saved by them. More particularly consider, (1.) What a mercy it is to have your Lot providentially cast under the Gospel? To be born under and bred up with the means and instruments of Conversion and Salvation? We have lived from our youth up under the Calls of God, and within the joyful sound of the Gospel: God hath not dealt so with other Nations, Psal. 147.20. Though others should seek the means of life, they cannot find them; and though you seek them not, you can hardly miss them. (2.) How great a mercy is it to have your lives lengthened out hitherto by the patience of God under the Gospel? That neither that golden Lamp, nor the Lamp of your life (both which are liable to be extinguished every moment) are yet put out. Thousands and ten thousands your Contemporaries are gone out of the hearing of the voice of the Gospel, they shall never hear another Call, the Treaty of God is ended with them, the Master of the house is risen up, and the doors are shut: