A39675:1723
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.
make thy will utterly inflexible, and thine ears deaf, as he threatens, Isa 6.10. What an undone miserable man or woman art thou then! O beware of provoking the forest of all Judgments, by persisting any longer in a course of rebellion against Light and Mercy. (6) Whilst your hearts put off and neglect the Calls of God, you can never by any means arrive to the evidence and assurance of your Election; for your Election is only secured to you by your effectual calling, 2 Pet. 1.10. there is no way for men to discern their Names written in the Book of Life, but by reading the work of Sanctification in their own hearts, Rom. 10.8. I desire no miraculous Voice from Heaven, no ⟨p. 465⟩extraordinary signs or unscriptural notices and informations in this matter, Lord, let me but find my heart complying with thy calls, my will obediently submitting to thy commands; Sin my burden, and Christ my desire: I will never crave a fairer or surer evidence of thy electing love to my Soul; and if I had an Oracle from Heaven, an extraordinary Messenger from the other World, to tell me thou lovest me, I have no reason to give credit to such a Voice, whilst I find my heart wholly sensual, averse to God, and indisposed to all that is spiritual. (7.) What reason have you why you should not presently embrace the Call of God, and thankfully lay hold upon the first opportunity and season of Salvation? Have you any greater matters in hand than the Salvation of your precious Souls? Is there any thing in all this world that more concerns you? If the affairs of this life be so indispensably necessary, and those of the world to come so indifferent: if you think that meat and drink, trade and business, wife and children be such great things, and Christ, Soul, and Eternity such little things; or if you think the Salvation be a work of the greatest necessity, yet it may safely enough be put off to a time of uncertainty, I may assure you, you will not long be of this mind. How soon are all the mistakes of men in these matters rectified in a few moments after death? Rectified, I say, but not remedied; your opinion will be changed, but not your condition. (8.) Do you not every day easily and readily obey the Calls of Satan and your own Lusts, whilst God and Conscience are suffered to call and strive with you in vain?