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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.
Thus Mr. Knox predicted the very place and manner of the death of the Laird of Grange. 1You have sometime seen the courage and constancy of the Laird of Grange in the cause of God, and now that unhappy man is casting himself away. I pray you go to him from me (said Mr. Knox) and tell him that unless he forsake that wicked course he is in, the Rock wherein he confideth, shall not defend him, nor the carnal wisdom of that man (meaning the young Leshington), whom he counteth half a God, shall help him: but he shall be shamefully pulled out of that nest, and his carcass hung before the Sun. And even so it fell out the following year, when the Castle was taken, and his Body hanged out before the Sun. Thus God exactly fulfilled the prediction of his death.
Thus Mr. Knox predicted the very place and manner of the death of the Laird of Grange. 1You have sometime seen the courage and constancy of the Laird of Grange in the cause of God, and now that unhappy man is casting himself away. I pray you go to him from me (said Mr. Knox) and tell him that unless he forsake that wicked course he is in, the Rock wherein he confideth, shall not defend him, nor the carnal wisdom of that man (meaning the young Leshington), whom he counteth half a God, shall help him: but he shall be shamefully pull'd out of that nest, and his carcase hung before the Sun. And even so it fell out the following year, when the Castle was taken, and his Body hang'd out before the Sun. Thus God exactly fulfilled the prediction of his death.
- 1Clark's Lives. p. 277.
The same Mr. Knox in the year 1566. being in the Pulpit at Edinburgh, upon the Lords day, a paper was given up to him among many others, wherein these words were scoffingly written concerning the Earl of Murray, who was slain the day before, Take up the man, whom ye accounted another God. At the end of the Sermon, Mr. Knox bewailed the loss that the Church and state had by the death of that virtuous man, and then added, There is one in this company that makes this horrible murder, the subject of his mirth,