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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.
To this end, that thou mayst escape this woeful Condition of the Ungodly, obey these few Directions.
To this end, that thou mayst escape this woful Condition of the Ungodly, obey these few Directions.
1. Believe and bewail your enmity against Christ. He loves you, yet by nature thou hatest him, Prov. 8. Rom. 1.31. Rom. 8.7. Indeed he may say of ⟨p. 65⟩thee, and all others in thy Condition, They hated me without a cause. But thou dost hate him, and thereby art wholly uncapable of his presence. Can two walk together unless they be agreed?
This enmity of thine against Christ (which discovers it self in thy daily Rebellions against his Laws, and Opposition to his Authority,) must be felt and lamented. There is little hope of their recovery, who are sick unto death, and insensible thereof, Matth. 9.12. —They that be whole need not the Physician, but they that are sick. Thy first work must be to know this plague of thine own heart; and to know it not notionally, as a Physician, by reading of it, or beholding it in others; but experimentally, as the Patient knoweth a Disease by feeling it, complaining of it, mourning for it, and longing to be freed from it.