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5 Because they have omitted infinite duties: the hours that are not spent in obedience against sin, are spent in sin against obedience. Wicked men think they commit but a single sin, when indeed they always double it. For in faciendo quod non debent, non faciunt quod debent: While they do what they should not, they leave undone what they should, and so bind two sins together. The Sabbath-ranger that is gone about the business of the pot, thinks he only offends in his excess, forgets his not serving God at the Church. It is one sin to be absent from the house of God, though, he did not admit the other, to be present in the house of sin. Doth the oppressor barely transgress in wringing the poor? yea, at that very time he should have relieved the poor. Think not thy hours wast papers, to fill them up with nothing but blanks: as if God would take this for a good reckoning, When the book of thy conscience comes to be opened, all those blanks are filled up with Indictments: and thou shalt find it a nequam, which thou thoughtest a nequicquam. No greatness of blood can privilege idleness, no more than much money can justify Usury. When God calls thee to account, Quare te non praebuisti solertem? Why wast thou not industrious? It will be no good answer; Quia tu me fecisti divitem; because thou hast made me rich. Now that these omissions deserve eternal destruction, it is manifest, because we are bound to the duties. Therefore in the form of CHRISTS judicial proceeding, the wicked are condemned for sins of omission, perpetrations not being spoken of, as if there were no question of their guiltiness: to show that their is damnation enough wrapped up in those very omissions. Neither shall they be only punished with the privation of all joys and peace, and no ⟨p. 474⟩further for then they were mere indifferences. But with the position of torments, to declare that good works were imposed; not voluntary, but necessary. Now if these be as innumerable as our waking minutes; how infinite must be the unrepentant's destruction for them!

5 Because they have omitted infinite duties: the houres that are not spent in obedience against sin, are spent in sin against obedience. Wicked men thinke they commit but a single sin, when indeed they alwayes double it. For in faciendo quod non debent, non faciunt quod debent: While they doe what they should not, they leave undone what they should, and so bind two sins together. The Sabbath-ranger that is gone about the businesse of the pot, thinkes he only offends in his excesse, forgets his not serving God at the Church. It is one sin to be absent from the house of God, though, he did not admit the other, to be present in the house of sin. Doth the oppressor barely transgresse in wringing the poore? yea, at that very time he should have relieved the poore. Thinke not thy houres wast papers, to fill them up with nothing but blankes: as if God would take this for a good reckoning, When the booke of thy conscience comes to be opened, all those blankes are filled up with Indictments: and thou shalt find it a nequam, which thou thoughtst a nequicquam. No greatnesse of bloud can priviledge idlenesse, no more than much money can justifie Vsurie. When God calls thee to account, Quare te non praebuisti solertem? Why wast thou not industrious? It will be no good answer; Quia tu me fecisti divitem; because thou hast made me rich. Now that these omissions deserve eternall destruction, it is manifest, because we are bound to the duties. Therefore in the forme of CHRISTS judiciall proceeding, the wicked are condemned for sins of omission, perpretrations not being spoken of, as if there were no question of their guiltinesse: to shew that their is damnation enough wrapped up in those very omissions. Neither shall they be only punished with the privation of all joyes and peace, and no