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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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3. It will much aggravate their misery to consider, that it was their own voluntary act to lose so much for so little. They shall then think with themselves, that this woeful condition in which they are, was their own choice. All the power and policy of Earth and Hell could not force them to destroy themselves. The Cords that bind them were of their own twisting, the Rods that scourge them were gathered with their own hands. The Web in which they are caught, and killed, was spun out of their bowels. God may say to them, as once to Israel, Ye have destroyed your selves, Hos. 13. Ye are your own Murderers. I put your Salvation so far into your own hands, that ye could not be damned against your wills. Your own Iniquities correct you, and ye are holden with cords of your own sins, Prov. 5.22. ⟨p. 46⟩Jer. 4.18. Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart. Jer. 2.19. Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy back-slidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God.
3. It will much aggravate their misery to consider, that it was their own voluntary act to lose so much for so little. They shall then think with themselves, that this woful condition in which they are, was their own choice. All the power and policy of Earth and Hell could not force them to destroy themselves. The Cords that bind them were of their own twisting, the Rods that scourge them were gather'd with their own hands. The Web in which they are caught, and kill'd, was spun out of their bowels. God may say to them, as once to Israel, Ye have destroyed your selves, Hos. 13. Ye are your own Murtherers. I put your Salvation so far into your own hands, that ye could not be damned against your wills. Your own Iniquities correct you, and ye are holden with cords of your own sins,