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The sinners last sentence to eternal punishment, for sins of omission
The sinners last sentence to eternal punishment, for sins of omission wherein is discovered, the nature, causes, and cure of those sins / by Geo. Swinnock.
London: printed for Geo. Swinnock, 1675
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The presence of Christ is the happiness of the Soul on Earth, Deut. 4.7. I will see you, and your hearts shall rejoice. Joh. 16.22. And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your hearts shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you. No such hearty comfort, as in the gracious presence of Christ. And the presence of Christ, is the happiness of the Soul in Heaven. I desire to be dissolved (though death simply considered ⟨p. 44⟩be not desirable) and to be with Christ. Finis conciliat mediis amorem. His presence is the Heaven of Heavens. It's the excellency of the new Jerusalem, that there the Tabernacle of God is with men, and God himself shall be with them, Rev. 21.3. And the felicity of the Citizens there. They shall see his Face, Rev. 22.4. In the presence of Christ is all good, and in the absence of Christ is all evil. If it were death to Absalom not to see the Kings face, what death will it be to the damned, to be denied for ever the blissful sight of the face of Christ.
The presence of Christ is the happiness of the Soul on Earth, Deut. 4.7. I will see you, and your hearts shall rejoyce. Joh. 16.22. And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your hearts shall rejoyce, and your joy no man taketh from you. No such hearty comfort, as in the gracious presence of Christ. And the presence of Christ, is the happiness of the Soul in Heaven. I desire to be dissolved (though death simply consider'd ⟨p. 44⟩be not desirable) and to be with Christ. Finis conciliat mediis amorem. His presence is the Heaven of Heavens. It's the excellency of the new Jerusalem, that there the Tabernacle of God is with men, and God himself shall be with them,