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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.
3. And yet you have more room for joy, whilst you consider where you must and shall be shortly. You are now in Christ, but in a few days you shall be with Christ, as well as in him: 'tis well now, but it will be better ere long. Your sin is now fully pardoned, but not fully purged out of your Souls. Your Persons are freed from guilt, but your Hearts are not either freed from filth or grief: But in a little time you shall be absolutely and eternally freed from both your present condition is an Heaven, compared with your former, and your future state will be •n Heaven indeed, compared with your present. The path of the just is as the shining light, which shineth more and more, unto the perfect day. Prov. 4.18.
II. But on the other side, what meditation can be more startling and amazing to all the unregenerate and Christless world? Ponder it thou poor Christless and unsanctified Soul. Get thee out of the noise and clamour of this world, ⟨p. 79⟩which makes such a continual din in thine ears, and consider how thou hangest over the mouth of Hell it self, by the feeble thread which is spun every moment out of thy Nostrils. As soon as that gives way, thou art gone for ever. What shift do you make to quiet your fears, and eat and drink and labour with any pleasure? 'Tis storied of Dionysius the Tyrant, that when Damocles would have flattered him into a conceit of the perfection of his happiness, as he was an absolute Sovereign Prince, and could do what he pleased with others, as his Vassals; Dionysius to confute his fancy, caused him to be placed at a Table richly furnished, and attended with the most curious Music, but just over his head hanged a sharp and heavy Sword by one single hair; which when Damocles saw, no meat would go down with him, but he earnestly begged for a discharge from that place. This is the lively emblem of thy condition thou unregenerate man.