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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 X.
IF our Souls be Immortal, Then death is neither to be feared by them in Heaven, nor hoped for by them in Hell. The being of Souls never fails, whether they be in a state of blessedness or of misery.1 In glory they are ever with the Lord, 1 Thes. 4.17. There shall be no death there, Revel. 21.4. And in Hell, though they shall wish for death, yet death shall flee from them. Though there be no fears of annihilation in Heaven, yet there be many vain wishes for it in Hell: but to no purpose; there never will be an end put either to their being, or to their torments. In this respect no other Creature is capable of the misery that wicked men are capable of when they die, there is the end of all their misery; but it is not so with Men. Better therefore had it been for them, if God had created them in the basest and lowest order and rank of Creatures; a Dog, a Toad, a Worm is better than a Man in endless misery, ever dying, and never dead. And so much of the Souls Immortality.
- 1O mors dulcis es, quibus amara fuisti: te solum desiderant, qui te solum oderunt. August.