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The works of George Swinnock, M.A
The works of George Swinnock, M.A. containing these several treatises ...
London: printed by J.B. for Tho. Parkhurst, 1665
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2. Speak to the merit of sin, how it being committed against an infinite Majesty, deserveth infinite wrath and severity; Tell him that the Wages ⟨p. 572⟩of Sin is death, temporal, spiritual, eternal; Acquaint him with the justice, holiness, and jealousy of God, how he will by no means clear the guilty, but hath threatened all manner of plagues and judgements on the workers of iniquity, and cannot fail in the least of accomplishing his word; how he is resolved to make all the Children of Men feel sin to be an evil and bitter thing, either in broken bones on earth, or, broken backs, and endless torments in hell. Let him know his own obnoxiousness, by reason of his many and grievous sins, to the curse of the Law, the wrath of the Lord, and the vengeance of the eternal fire. Tell him that he is by nature a Child of Wrath, an Enemy to God, and an Heir of Hell; that it had been just to have cast him out of the Womb into Hell; that Gods patience in bearing with him thus long, will but increase his condemnation and endless misery, unless he prevent it by sincere conversion.
2. Speak to the merit of sin, how it being committed against an infinite Majesty, deserveth infinite wrath and severity; Tell him that the Wages ⟨p. 572⟩of Sin is death, temporal, spiritual, eternal; Acquaint him with the justice, holiness, and jealousie of God, how he will by no means clear the guilty, but hath threatned all manner of plagues and judgements on the workers of iniquity, and cannot fail in the least of accomplishing his word; how he is resolved to make all the Children of Men feel sin to be an evil and bitter thing, either in broken bones on earth, or, broken backs, and endless torments in hell. Let him know his own obnoxiousness, by reason of his many and greivous sins, to the curse of the Law, the wrath of the Lord, and the vengeance of the eternal fire. Tell him that he is by nature a Child of Wrath, an Enemy to God, and an Heir of Hell; that it had been just to have cast him out of the Womb into Hell; that Gods patience in bearing with him thus long, will but increase his condemnation and endless misery, unless he prevent it by sincere conversion.