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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Chapter 7: Containing the folly of Sinners, and the vast difference between them and the Godly at…
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 one Soul be more worth than a whole World, surely one Saviour, one God is more worth than a thousand Souls, than a million of Worlds. How mad then is he that parts with this Soul, this Saviour, this God, for a little, a very little of this World; yea, for this little of the World for a very little time.
If all the delights of the Flesh, and all the Pleasures of Sin, and all the profits of the World, cannot balance the partial enjoyment of God in his Ordinances for one hour; How unable will they be to compensate the loss of full Communion with God for ever? O how infinitely doth Christ out-weigh what ever the flesh or world can offer in exchange for him!
If all the delights of the Flesh, and all the Pleasures of Sin, and all the profits of the World, cannot ballance the partial enjoyment of God in his Ordinances for one hour; How unable will they be to compensate the loss of full Communion with God for ever? O how infinitely doth Christ out-weigh what ever the flesh or world can offer in exchange for him!
4. It informeth how contrary the portion of the Godly and the Wicked is at the day of Judgment. At this day they fare often alike, they fall under the ⟨p. 54⟩same favourable and frowning Providences, they have the same Comforts, and the same Crosses. If any difference for the better, 'tis usually on the Sinners side. The vilest men are exalted, and the proud prosper. But at that day there will be a difference indeed for the better on the Saints side. That day will be terrible to the Wicked, a day of wrath, a day of the perdition of ungodly men, Rom. 2.4.