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 ...

Inference II.

HOW little reason have the Vnregenerate to glory and boast themselves in their earthly acquisitions and successes, whilst mean time their Souls are lost! they have gotten other things, but lost their Souls. 'Tis strange to see how some men by rolling a small Fortune up and down the World, (as Boys do a Snow-ball) have increased the heap, and raised a great Estate, they have attained their design and aim in the world, and hug themselves in the pleased thoughts of their happi∣ness: but alas! among all the thoughts of their gains, there is not one thought of what they have lost. O if such a thought as this could find room in their hearts, I have in∣deed gotten an Estate, but I have lost my Soul: I have much of the world, but nothing of Christ: Gold and Silver I have, but Grace, peace, and pardon I have not: my body is well provided for, but my Soul is naked, empty, and destitute: such a thought, like the Sentence written on the wall, would make their hearts quail within them. What a rapture and transport of joy did the sight of a full Barn cast that World∣ling into? Luke 12.19, 20. Soul, take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry; little dreaming that death was just then at the door to take away the cloth, guest, and all together; that the next hour his Friends would be scrambling for his Estate, the Worms for his body, and the Devils for his Soul.

O how many have not only lost their Souls, whilst they have been drudging for the world, but have sold their Souls to purchase a little of the world! parted by consent with

their best treasure for a very trifle, and yet think they have a great bargain of it. Surely, if poor sinners did but appre∣hend what they have lost, as well as what they have gained, their gains would yield them as little comfort, as Iudas his money did for which he sold both his Soul and Saviour. In∣stead of those pleasing Frolicks of wanton Worldlings, what a cold shiver would run through all their bones and bowels, did they but understand what it is to lose a gracious God and a precious Soul, and both eternally and irrecoverably.

The just God remains still to avenge and punish the sin∣ner; but the favour of God, that friendly look is gone, the peace of God, that Heaven upon Earth is gone, the Essence of the Soul remains still, but its purity, peace, joy, hope, and happiness these are gone; and these being gone, what can remain, but a tormenting piercing sight of those things for which you have sold them!