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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.
Consider with thy self how impossible it is for thee to delight in the presence of Christ, whom thou abhorrest; and to take pleasure in the Company of any, whom thy nature hath a reluctancy against.
2. Make Christ your Friend through Faith in his blood. There is no getting to Christ hereafter, but by coming to him here. Accept him now, and he will accept thee then. He will say to those that are now strangers to him, Depart from me, I never knew you. If thou dost not know him, and him crucified in this World, he will not know thee in the other World. Thou canst not rationally expect admission into his presence, if thou hast no acquaintance with his person. Strangers and Enemies are kept out, when Children, and those that are the Friends of the Master of the house are taken in. It is by Faith in his blood that thou canst be united to him, and made one with him; as the Wife is united to the Husband, and the Members to the Head, Ephes. 5.27. That he might present it to himself a glorious Church. Ephes. 1. ult. Which is the Body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all. Ephes. 3.17. And being so made one with him, Husband and Wife, Head and Members shall be together for ever. Where I am, there shall ye be also, Joh. 14.2, 3. The great ground of Christs passion ⟨p. 67⟩was, to bring those that believe to God, and that they might abide with him eternally.
2. Make Christ your Friend through Faith in his blood. There is no getting to Christ hereafter, but by coming to him here. Accept him now, and he will accept thee then. He will say to those that are now strangers to him, Depart from me, I never knew you. If thou dost not know him, and him crucified in this World, he will not know thee in the other World. Thou canst not rationally expect admission into his presence, if thou hast no acquaintance with his person. Strangers and Enemies are kept out, when Children, and those that are the Friends of the Master of the house are taken in. It is by Faith in his blood that thou canst be united to him, and made one with him; as the Wife is united to the Husband, and the Members to the Head,