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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.
2. Because when life is in hazard, Conscience will work in them by way of Discouragement; 'twill hint the danger of their eternal state to them▪ and tell them, they may cast away their Souls for ever in a Bravado, for though the cause they are called to suffer for, be good, yet their Condition is bad; and if the Condition be not good as well as the Cause, a Man is lost for ever though he suffer for it, 1 Cor. 13.3. Conscience, which encourages and supports the upright▪ will daunt and appal the Hypocrite, and tell him, he is not on the same terms in Sufferings, that other men are.
2. Because when life is in hazard, Conscience will work in them by way of Discouragement; 'twill hint the danger of their eternal state to them▪ and tell them, they may cast away their Souls for ever in a Bravado, for though the cause they are called to suffer for, be good, yet their Condition is bad; and if the Condition be not good as well as the Cause, a Man is lost for ever though he suffer for it, 1 Cor. 13.3. Conscience, which encourages and supports the upright▪ will daunt and appall the Hypocrite, and tell him, he is not on the same terms in Sufferings, that other men are.
3. Because then all the Springs by which their profession was fed and maintained, fail and dry up. Now the wind that was in their backs is come about, and blows a storm in their faces. There are no Preferment nor Honours now to be had from Religion. These mens Sufferings are a perfect Surprise to them, for they never counted the cost, Luke 14.28. Now they must stand alone, and resist unto blood, and sacrifice all visibles for invisibles, and this they can never do.