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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.
(1.) By cutting off the life, or dissolving the Tabernacles of wicked men, God pays▪ that debt of Justice owing to the first Adam's sinful Posterity, whose sins cry daily to his Justice to cut them off, •om. 6 23. The wages of sin is death; and indeed it is admirable, that his patience suffers ungodly men to live so long as they do, for he endures with much long-suffering, •om. 9.22. He sees all their sins, he is grieved at the heart with them: His forbearance doth but encourage them the more to sin against him, Eccles. 8.11. Because Sentence, &c. yet forbears, Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, Psal. 95.10. And it's wonderful that patience doth not crack under such a load. Habakkuk admired it, Habak 1.13. Thou art of purer eyes, &c. Yet he suffers them to spend lavishly upon his patience from year to year, but Justice must do its office at last.
(2.) By cutting off the lives of good men, God pays to Christ the reward of his Sufferings, the end of his death, which was to bring many Sons to glory, Hebr. 2.10. Alas, it answers not Christs end and intention in dying, to have his people so remote from him, John 17.24. He would have them where he is, that they might behold his glory. Two vehement desires are satisfied by this Appointment of God, and its Execution.
(2.) By cutting off the lives of good men, God pays to Christ the reward of his Sufferings, the end of his death, which was to bring many Sons to glory,