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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.
I know it's a common presumption of most men, that they shall be in Heaven, when they can be no longer on earth. Praesumendo sperant, & sperando pereunt. But a few moments will convince them of their fatal mistake; their poor Souls will meet with a confounding repulse like that, Matth. 7.22. There is indeed a City full of heavenly Mansions prepared for some, but who are they that are entitled to it, and may confidently expect to be received into it? To be sure, not the presumptuous, who make a Bridge of their own Shadows, and so fall and perish in the waters. Brethren it is one of the most solemn enquiries you were ever put upon: And therefore I beseech you see whether your Characters set you among those men or no.
I know it's a common presumption of most men, that they shall be in Heaven, when they can be no longer on earth. Praesumendo sperant, & sperando pereunt. But a few moments will convince them of their fatal mistake; their poor Souls will meet with a confounding repulse like that, Matth. 7.22. There is indeed a City full of heavenly Mansions prepared for some, but who are they that are intitled to it, and may confidently expect to be received into it? To be sure, not the presumptuous, who make a Bridge of their own Shadows, and so fall and perish in the waters. Brethren it is one of the most solemn enquiries you were ever put upon: And therefore I beseech you see whether your Characters set you among those men or no.
1. First, Those that are new-born shall be clothed with their new house from Heaven, when death unclothes them of these Tabernacles: The New Jerusalem hath […] but new-born Inhabitants, 1 Pet. 1.3, 4. and Christ tells us, John 3.3. all others are excluded. Glory is the Privilege of Grace. Let nature be adorned and cultivated how it will,