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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
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CHAP. XII. The fullness of wicked mens misery, in that it's positive and privative, with some Cautions against it.
CHAP. XII. The fulness of wicked mens misery, in that it's positive and privative, with some Cautions against it.
Use. Learn hence the full misery of the wicked in the other World. They shall not only be deprived of all good, in their banishment from the presence of God, but also be afflicted with all evil, in their suffering the pains of Hell fire. The godly in the other World shall be perfectly blessed, in their freedom from all penal and all moral evil, and their fruition of all that is truly good, for they shall ever ⟨p. 81⟩be with the Lord, who is an universal good. So the Wicked in the World to come shall be perfectly cursed, in the absence of what ever is comfortable, and in the presence of whatsoever is dreadful, and may render them miserable; Snares, Fire, Brimstone, an horrible Tempest, shall be rained on them as their portion; woeful are the fruits of Sin oftentimes in this World. It keeps good from men here, strips them of their Estates, Relations, Liberties, Limbs, Health, Names; nay, of the Gospel, Ordinances, and seasons of Grace, and brings on them much evil here, Aches, Pains, Diseases in their Bodies, Horrors and Terrors in their Souls. But these are nothing to the effects of Sin in the other World. Here in the midst of Judgment, Mercy is remembered; there is no state on Earth of mere or pure wrath. All good things are not removed, nor all evil things inflicted on any. In the worst Estate there is Life, and that clothed with some Favours. The pained have some intermission, or at least remission of their pains. In the lowest estate there is hope of better, ⟨p. 82⟩and that is no small Cordial to a poor Creature; there is no Condition so bad, but might have been worse, both for its intention and duration. But now in the other World, the wicked have Judgment without a mite of Mercy, and Misery without any Ease; either in regard of degree or intermission: All good banished from them, and all evil inflicted on them.