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 ...
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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 ...
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Flavel, John, 1630?-1691.
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London :: Printed for Francis Tyton ...,
1685.
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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A39675.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 8, 2024.
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Inference IX.
HOw poor a comfort is it to him that carries all his sins out of this World with him, to leave much earthly treasure (especially if gotten by sin) behind him?
It is a poor consolation to be praised where thou art not,* 1.1 and tormented where thou art: to purchase a life of pleasure to o∣thers on earth, at the price of thine own everlasting misery in Hell. All the consolation, sensual, voluptuous, and oppressing Wordlings have, is but this, that they were coached to Hell in pomp and state, and have left the same Chariot to bring their graceless Children after them in the same Equipage to the place of Torments. There be five Considerations provoking pity to them that are thus past into a miserable eternity, and Caution to all that are following after in the same path.
First, That fatal mistake in the practical understanding and judgment of man deserves a compassionate lamentation, as the cause and reason of their eternal miscarriage and ruine. They looked upon trifles as things of greatest necessity, and the most necessary things as meer trifles: putting the greatest weight and value upon that which little concerned them, and none at all upon their greatest concernment in the whole World, Luke 12.21.
Secondly, The perpetual diversions that the trifles of this World gave them from the main use and end of their time. O what a hurry and thick succession of earthly business and en∣cumbrances filled up their days! So that they could find no time to go alone, and think of the awful and weighty concern∣ments of the World to come, Iames 5.5.
Thirdly, The total waste and expence of the only season of Salvation about these vanished, impertinent trifles, which is ne∣ver more to be recovered, Eccles. 9 10.
Fourthly, That these deluding shadows, the pleasures of a moment, is all they had in exchange for their Souls: a goodly price it was valued at, Matth. 16.26.
Fifthly, That by such a life they have not only ruined their own Souls, but put their posterity, by their education of them in the same course of life, into the same path of destruction, in which they went to Hell before them: Psal. 49.13. Their po∣sterity approve their saying.