A39675:540
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.
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, 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 tryed: You think you hate sin, but will you be able to strive unto blood against sin? Hebr. 12.4. Will you chuse suffering rather than sin, Iob 36.21? O try your love to Christ, before God bring it to the tryal. Sure I am, the love of life will make you warp in the hour of Temptation; except
1. You sate down and counted the cost of Religion before-hand: if you set out in Profession only for a Walk, not for a Journey; if you go to Sea for Recreation, not for a Voyage; if you be mounted among other Professors only to take the air, and not to engage an enemy in sharp and bloody Encounters; you are gone.