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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.
I. Regenerate Souls should ponder this with pleasure, O 'tis transporting to think how small a matter is betwixt them, and their complete Salvation. No sooner is your breath gone, but the full desire of your hearts is come. every breath you draw, draws you a degree nearer to your perfect happiness, Rom. 13.11. Now is your Salvation nearer than when you believed: therefore both your cheerfulness and diligence should be greater than when you were *in the infancy of your Faith. You have run through a considerable part of your Christian course and race, and are now come nearer the Goal and prize of eternal life: O, despond not, loiter not now at last, who were so fervent and zealous in the beginning.
I. Regenerate Souls should ponder this with pleasure, O 'tis transporting to think how small a matter is betwixt them, and their compleat Salvation. No sooner is your breath gone, but the full desire of your hearts is come. every breath you draw, draws you a degree nearer to your perfect happiness, Rom. 13.11. Now is your Salvation nearer than when you believed: therefore both your chearfulness and diligence should be greater than when you were *in the infancy of your Faith. You have run through a considerable part of your Christian course and race, and are now come nearer the Goal and prize of eternal life: O, despond not, loyter not now at last, who were so fervent and zealous in the beginning.
- *Ho• dicit q•od in f•d•i primordiis, ferventiores, & ad opera bona alacriores faissent fideles; temporis autem progressu, refriguissent. Estius in loc.