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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 8: An use of Trial, with the marks of those that shall be banished Christs presence.
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.
1. To try whether thou, Reader, art one of them that art like to be banished the presence of Christ. It's a woeful doom, as thou hast heard at large; therefore examine thy self, whether it shall be thy part and portion or no? To help thee herein, that thou mayst not deceive and delude thy own Soul, I shall give thee out of the Word of Truth, the Characters of them, to whom Christ will say, Depart from me.
1. To try whether thou, Reader, art one of them that art like to be banished the presence of Christ. It's a woful doom, as thou hast heard at large; therefore examine thy self, whether it shall be thy part and portion or no? To help thee herein, that thou mayst not deceive and delude thy own Soul, I shall give thee out of the Word of Truth, the Characters of them, to whom Christ will say, Depart from me.
1. The evil Liver and profane Person shall be banished Christs presence. The black Sinner shall not stand before the white Throne. Then shall he say unto them, Depart from me ye Workers of Iniquity, I know you not, Matth. 7.23, Luk. 13.27. Those who lived in the ⟨p. 61⟩breach of his Commands, must not live in the enjoyment of his company. The Workers of Iniquity must associate with the wicked One, not with the holy One. Heaven can by no means admit the unholy; Into it can in no wise enter any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, Rev. 21. ult. Scandalous Sinners proclaim to the World, That the Devil, not Christ, is their Master, and that Hell where the Devil is with his Angels, not Heaven where Christ is with his Angels shall be their eternal home. They who never liked or loved his presence on the Earth, but banished him their Hearts and Houses, must think and expect that he will not like or love their presence, but sentence them to an everlasting banishment from him.