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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. Except you live by Faith, and not by Sense, 2 Cor. 4.18. Whilst we look not at the things that are seen. You must balance present Sufferings with future glory. You must go by that account and reckoning, Rom. 8.18. or you are gone. Now the just shall live by faith, and if Faith don't support, your fears will certainly sink you.
2. Except you live by Faith, and not by Sense, 2 Cor. 4.18. Whilst we look not at the things that are seen. You must ballance present Sufferings with future glory. You must go by that account and reckoning, Rom. 8.18. or you are gone. Now the just shall live by faith, and if Faith don't support, your fears will certainly sink you.
3. Except you be sincere and plain-hearted in Religion, driving no Design in it but to save your Souls; else see your lot in that Example, 2 Tim. 4.10. Demas hath forsaken me. O take heed of a cunning, subdolous, double heart in Religion, be plain, be open, care not if your ends lay open to the eyes of all the World.
4. Except you experience the power of Religion in your own Souls, as well as wear the name of it. O my Brethren, 'tis not a name to live, that will do you service now. Many Ships are gone down to the bottom, for all the brave Names of the Success, the Prosperous, the Happy return, and so will you. There is a knowing in our selves by taste and real experience,