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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.
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, Eph. 1.4. long before we had our being, Rom. 9.11. (2) This choice of God, or his purpose to save some, is immutable, 2 Tim. 2.19. James 1.17. (3) This choice he made in Christ, Eph. 1.4. Not that Christ is the cause of Gods choosing us: For we were not elected, because we were, but that we might be in Christ. Christ was ordained to be the Medium of the execution of this Decree: and all the mercies which were purposed and ordained for us, were to be purchased by the blood of Christ He was not the cause of the Decree, but the purchaser of the mercies decreed for us. (4) This choice was of a certain number of persons, who are all known to God, 2 Tim. 2.19. and all given to Christ in the Covenant of Redemption, John 17.2, 6. So that no Elect person can be a Reprobate, no Reprobate an Elect person. (5) This number was chosen to Salvation, 1 Thes. 5.9. No less did God design for them than glory and happiness, and that for ever. (6) The same persons that are appointed to Salvation as the end, are also appointed to sanctification, as the way and means, by which they shall attain that end.