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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
If God depart from his people in some degrees, (for he is their God still, Psal. 22.1. Psal. 88.1.) and but for a time; as a loving Father, to make his Children more sensible of their folly, and of the worth of his Favour; How sadly have they cried out, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? How horribly will they screech and roar, from whom he departs wholly and eternally, as a supreme and righteous Judge.
If God depart from his people in some degrees, (for he is their God still, Psal. 22.1. Psal. 88.1.) and but for a time; as a loving Father, to make his Children more sensible of their folly, and of the worth of his Favour; How sadly have they cried out, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? How horribly will they screech and roar, from whom he departs wholly and eternally, as a supream and righteous Judge.
It will greatly aggravate their misery, to consider these particulars:
1. The greatness of their loss. It's not the loss of an House, or Estate, or bodily good, but the loss of a Soul, the loss of a Saviour, the loss of a God; yea the loss of all good, and that for ever. It's such a loss as never had its fellow or equal: It's such a loss as cannot admit of any addition to it. It's a loss that never had the like before it, nor shall have the like after it. It's an incomparable loss, that the damned may say as he, Ye have taken away my God, and what have I more?