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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.
But sin hath defaced its Beauty, razed out the divine Image which was its glory, and stamped the very Image of Satan upon it: Turned all its noble powers and faculties against the Author and Fountain of its Being. Surely, if all the posterity of Adam, from the beginning to the end of the world, should do nothing else but weep and sigh for the sin and misery of the fall; it could not be sufficiently deplored: Other sins, like single bullets kill particular persons, but Adams sin like a Chain-shot mowed down all mankind at once. It murdered himself actually, all his posterity, virtually; and Christ himself, occasionally. O! ⟨p. 67⟩what a black train of doleful consequents attend this sin▪ It hath darkened the bright eye of the Souls understanding, 1 Cor. 2.14. made its complying and obedient will, stubborn and rebellious, Joh. 5.40. rendered his tender heart obdurate and senseless, Ezek. 36.26. filled its serene and peaceful Conscience with guilt and terror, Tit. 1.15. The consideration of these things is very humbling, and should cause those that glory in their high and illustrious Descents, to wrap their silver Star in Cypress, and cover all their glory with a mourning Veil. But this is but one part of their duty.
But sin hath defaced its Beauty, raz'd out the divine Image which was its glory, and stampt the very Image of Satan upon it: Turn'd all its noble powers and faculties against the Author and Fountain of its Being. Surely, if all the posterity of Adam, from the beginning to the end of the world, should do nothing else but weep and sigh for the sin and misery of the fall; it could not be sufficiently deplored: Other sins, like single bullets kill particular persons, but Adams sin like a Chain-shot mowed down all mankind at once. It murthered himself actually, all his posterity, virtually; and Christ himself, occasionally. O! ⟨p. 67⟩what a black train of doleful consequents attend this sin It hath darkned the bright eye of the Souls understanding,