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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.
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.
Do I call it Mine? (I must correct my self) it is indeed your Honours, and my tendering it to your acceptance, is but my paying you your own: It is a Legacy left you by my dear deceased Husband, who commanded me on his death-bed in all humble wise to present it to your Honour, and publish it under your Protection: So that although it was left with me, it was left by him for your Honour.
Do I call it Mine? (I must correct my self) it is indeed your Honours, and my tendring it to your acceptance, is but my paying you your own: It is a Legacy left you by my dear deceased Husband, who commanded me on his death-bed in all humble wise to present it to your Honour, and publish it under your Protection: So that although it was left with me, it was left by him for your Honour.
Do I call it a Legacy? (I must again correct, and confess) It is a due Debt: For our poor Family stands most deeply obliged to your Honour, who have been pleased to exercise a generous bounty towards us, and such as is suitable to none but a noble mind.
The Debt is humbly acknowledged by us, and shall be undoubtedly repaid by the Lord, to whom it was lent: Your Lordship may with comfort read the Specialty in Gods own Word, 1which is very good security. But as for us, alas! what have we to return? except these gleanings of the Fruits of my dear Husbands Labours, even some of those, which were brought forth, when he last laboured in the Lords Vineyard.