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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.
Inference IX.
IF Souls be Immortal, Then there must needs be a vast difference betwixt the aspects and influences of death, upon the Godly and Ungodly.
IF Souls be Immortal, Then there must needs be a vast difference betwixt the aspects and influences of death, upon the Godly and Vngodly.
O if Souls would but seriously consider what an alteration death will make upon their condition, for evil or for good: how useful would such meditations be to them. (1) They must be disseized, and turned out of these houses of Clay, and live in a state of separation from them: of this there is an inevitable necessity, Eccles. 8.8. 'Tis in vain to say, I am not ready, ready or unready, they must depart when their lease is out. 'Tis as vain to say, I am not willing, for willing or unwilling, they must be gone, there's no hanging back and begging, Lord, let death take another at this time, and spare me; for no man dies by a Proxy. (2) The time of our Souls departure is at hand, 2 Pet. 1.13, 14. Job 16.22. The most firm and well built body can stand but a few days, but our ruinous Tabernacles give our Souls warning, that the day of their departure is at hand. The lamp of life is almost burnt down, the glass of time almost run: yet a few, a very few days and nights more, and then time, nights and days shall be no more. (3) When that most certain, and near approaching time is come, wonderful alterations will be made on the state of all Souls, Godly and Ungodly.