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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 15: The reason of Christs severe Sentence, and a question resolved, whether the Righteous,…
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. Whether there be not the like ground of the Salvation of the blessed that there is of the damnation of the wicked; namely, the merit of their works. Both seem to speak it, Come ye blessed, &c. For I was hungry, and ye gave me meat. Again, Go ye cursed, &c. For I was hungry, and ye gave me no meat? &c.
2. Why Christ will try men at the great day by the performance or neglect of this Duty of Charity, and not rather by their performance or neglect of Prayer, Hearing, Watchfulness, or some other Duty, or by their Humility, Heavenly-mindedness, Patience, Temperance? &c.
In answer to the first, though Bellarmine affirms, There is the same reason in each, and Cornel. A Lapide, with the rest of the Papists, concur therein, yet if they were not wilfully blind, they might see enough in the Text to disprove them.
1. In that Christ calls to the blessed to inherit the Kingdom, [Greek or Hebrew], which word signifieth Haereditatis jure possidere, to enjoy a thing by right of Inheritance, from Parents and Ancestors, and not by right of Purchase, or deserving; therefore Heaven is often called [Greek or Hebrew], an Inheritance,