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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. 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, ⟨p. 176⟩if not renewed by grace, there's no hope of Glory. You must be born again, or turned back again from the Gates of Heaven disappointed. You must be regenerated or damned. This alters the temper of thy heart, and suits it to the life of God, which is indispensably necessary to them that shall live with him. Else Heaven would be no Heaven to us, Rom. 8.7. and therefore we must be wrought this way to it, 2 Cor. 5 5. No Privilege of Nature, no Duties of Religion avail without this, Gal. 6.15. If Morality without Regeneration could bring men to Heaven, Why are not the Heathens there? If strictness in Duty without Regeneration, Why not the Pharisees there? Believe it, neither Names, nor Duties, no nor the Blood of Christ, ever did, or shall bring one Soul to glory without it. O then thou that boastest of an house in Heaven, lay thine hand on thy heart and ask it; Am I a new Creature, (i.e.) Am I renewed (1) in my state and condition? 1 John 3.14. past from death to life. (2) In my frame and temper? Eph. 5.8. once darkness, now light in the Lord. […] In my Practice and Conversation? Eph. 2.12, 13.1 Cor. 6.11. if not, my Soul is destitute of an habitation in the City of God, and when I die, my Body must lie in the lonely house of the Grave, that dark Vault and Prison, and my Soul be shut out from God into outer darkness.