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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.
Argument VIII.
Moreover eighthly, The supposition of the Souls perishing with the Body, is subversive of the Christian Religion, in the principal Doctrines and Duties thereof: take away the Immortality of the Soul, and all Religion falls to the ground: I will instance in 1. The Doctrines of Religion. 2. The Duties of Religion.
MOreover eighthly, The supposition of the Souls perishing with the Body, is subversive of the Christian Religion, in the principal Doctrines and Duties thereof: take away the Immortality of the Soul, and all Religion falls to the ground: I will instance in 1. The Doctrines of Religion. 2. The Duties of Religion.
1. First, It overthrows the main Principles and Doctrines of Christian Religion, upon which both our faith and comfort is founded; and consequently, it undoes and ruins us, as to all solid hope and true joy. The Doctrines or Principles it overthrows are among many others such as follow. (1) It nullifies and makes void the great design and end of Gods eternal Election. The Scriptures tell us, that from eternity God hath chosen a certain number in Christ Jesus, to eternal life, and to the means by which they shall attain it: out of his mere good pleasure, and for the praise of his ⟨p. 110⟩grace. This was (1) an eternal Act of God,