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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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Chapter 7: Containing the folly of Sinners, and the vast difference between them and the Godly at…
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CHAP. VII. Containing the folly of Sinners, and the vast difference between them and the Godly at the Great day.
3. IT informeth us that every wicked man is out of his wits; surely the man is mad, who exchangeth his Soul, and Saviour, and God, and all for a little worldly profit, or fleshly pleasure; yea, that parts with true and durable Riches, for shadowy and fading Treasure, that loseth heavenly and eternal Joys, for earthly and transitory Pleasures.
No man can love sin, but he hates himself; nor part with his Duty, but he parts with his Felicity. And surely such a man who hates himself, and forsakes his Happiness, is a mad man. Well might the Holy Ghost speak the Prodigal out of his wits, when he was out of his way, and wandering from his Father's house. How mad was he to forsake Bread for Husks? (all the world is but Husks, dry, coarse, empty Fare, to the ⟨p. 53⟩Dainties of the Gospel.) Bread in a Fathers house, for Husks among Swine; yea, and plenty of Bread, enough and to spare, for a few Husks that could not fill their Bellies.
No man can love sin, but he hates himself; nor part with his Duty, but he parts with his Felicity. And surely such a man who hates himself, and forsakes his Happiness, is a mad man. Well might the Holy Ghost speak the Prodigal out of his wits, when he was out of his way, and wandring from his Father's house. How mad was he to forsake Bread for Husks? (all the world is but Husks, dry, coorse, empty Fare, to the