A39675:1722
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.
Your neglects and provocations have not been inferior to theirs, but the patience and goodness of God hath exceeded and abounded to you beyond whatever it did to them. (3.) Bethink your selves what an aggravation of your misery it will be to sink into Hell with the Calls of God sounding in your ears! to sink into eternal misery betwixt the tender out-stretched arms of Mercy; this is the Hell of Hell, the Emphasis of Damnation; the racking Engine on which the Consciences of the damned are tortured. And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be brought down to hell, Matt. 11.23. Such a fall after so high an exaltation is the very Strappado which will torment your Consciences. Hell will prove a cooler and milder place to the Heathens that never enjoyed your light, means, and mercies in this world, than it will to you. None sink so deep into misery in the world to come, as they that fall from the fairest opportunities of Salvation in this world. ⟨p. 464⟩(4) Let no man expect that God will hear his cries and entreaties in time of misery, who neglects and slights the Calls of God in the time of Mercy. God calls, but men will not hear, the day is coming when they shall cry, but God will not hear, Prov. 1.24, 25 will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him? Job 27.9. no, no, he will not: and this is but a just retribution from the righteous God, whose calls and counsels men have set at nought; but whatever men now think of it, it is certainly the greatest misery incident to man in all the world: for as no words can make another fully sensible what a privilege it is to have the ear, favour, pity, and help of God in a day of straits; so it is impossible for any words to express the doleful state and case of that Soul whom God casts off in trouble, and whose cries he shuts out. (5) Beware of neglecting any Call of God, because that Call you are now tempted to neglect, may be the last Call that ever God intendeth to give thy Soul. Sure I am there is a Call which will be the last Call of God to rebellious Sinners, and after that no more Calls, but an eternal deep silence: his Spirit shall not always strive with man; and the more motions and calls you have already slighted, the more probable it is, that this may be the last Voice of God in a way of Mercy to thy Soul: and what if after this, God should seal up thy heart, and judicially harden it;