The works of George Swinnock, M.A

Those that are ignorant of God, abound in all manner of Atheism and wickedness. The Families which know not God, will not call on his name. There is no truth, no mercy; but lying and stealing, and swearing, and killing, where there is no knowledge of God, Hos. 4. 1, 2. 'Tis no wonder to see blind men stumble and fall, and break their limbs. I do not marvel to see ignorant men, who know not God, to live without him, to turn him out of their hearts and houses, as if they had no dependence on him, or engagements to him.

Those that are ignorant of God, abound in all manner of Atheism and wickedness. The Families which know not God, will not call on his name. There is no truth, no mercy; but lying and stealing, and swearing, and killing, where there is no knowledge of God, Hos. 4. 1, 2. 'Tis no wonder to see blind men stumble and fall, and break their limbs. I do not marvail to see ignorant men, who know not God, to live without him, to turn him out of their hearts and houses, as if they had no dependance on him, or ingagements to him.

Whence is it that men are regardless of their souls and eternal estates, that they dance over the unquenchable lake, and are merry and jovial at the very brink of destruction, that they despise the God that made them, preserveth them, bought them, and hath them in his hands, and at his ⟨p. 808⟩mercy every moment, that they slight his Son, his Spirit, his Law, his Love, his wrath, his promises of eternal life, as if they were things of no value, and rather fit to be trampled on then esteemed; that they can lye down and sleep, and rise up and eat, and drink, and follow their sports and pleasures, and laugh and sing under the guilt of sin, and curse of the Law, and infinite wrath of the Lord, but their ignorance of God? Ah did they but know his holiness, his Jealousy, his Power, his Justice, they they would s•oner undergo any misery that men could inflict on them, then incur his anger, or provoke him to jealousy; they would never neglect is Worship, or put him off with a few heartless prayers; Ludentes cum Deo ut pueri cum suis puppis, as Calvin hath it, Playing with him as children with their babies, when they come immediately to his presence, and pretend to seek his face.