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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.
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, Col. 1.12. Ephes. 1.14. 1 Pet. 1.3. So the Type of it, the Land of Canaan is often called by the 70, probably from the division or distribution of the Land by lot to them,1 Josh. 14.2. which to a word is the import of the word. Now they who enjoy an Estate by right of Sonship, do not possess it by Merit. What can a Child who may inherit his deceased Fathers Estate in his Child-hood or Infancy do to deserve that Estate.