A39675:539
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.
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.
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 Surprize to them, for they never counted the cost, Luke 14.28. Now they must stand alone, and resist unto bloud, and sacrifice all visibles for invisibles, and this they can never do.
O therefore Professors look to your hearts, try their predominant love, compare your love to Christ with that to your lives. Now the like question will be put to you that once was put to Peter, John 21.15. Lovest thou me more than these? What say you to this? You think now, you do, but alas, your love is not yet brought to the fire to be tried: You think you hate sin, but will you be able to strive unto blood against sin? Hebr. 12.4. Will you choose suffering rather than sin, Job 36.21? O try your love to Christ, before God bring it to the trial. Sure I am, the love of life will make you warp in the hour of Temptation; except
O therefore Professors look to your hearts, try their predominant love, compare your love to Christ with that to your lives. Now the like question will be put to you that once was put to Peter,