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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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Chapter 15: The reason of Christs severe Sentence, and a question resolved, whether the Righteous,…
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5. If fore-sight of mens Works be the cause of their Election, then man hath whereof to glory. He is then the cause of his own Salvation. Election is the Original of all, a spring that runneth under ground for a time; first bubbleth up and discovers it self in effectual Calling, so glideth along in a life of Faith & Holiness, and at last emptieth it self in the Ocean of Peace, and Joy, and Happiness: ⟨p. 102⟩So that if man be the Cause of his Election, then he may thank himself for his Salvation. John is no more beholden to God than Judas, for 'tis the improvement of the freedom of his Will which brings him to Heaven. God did as much for Judas (say they) as for John. But how contrary is this to the word of Truth? Rom. 4.2. But if Abraham were justified by Works, he had whereof to glory. The Scripture speaks in another Dialect, By Grace ye are saved, through Faith, not of Works, lest any man should boast, Eph. 2.4, 5. The Knife with which Adam cut his own Throat, and wherewith he murdered his Posterity, was Pride. He would hold of himself, and not of God. The wise and gracious God, in the way he hath taken for our Recovery, is pleased to lay this Knife as far as may be out of our way, lest we be ruined by it a second time: Though this Pride, the Popish Doctrine of Merits, and fore-sight of good Works maintains; but God tells us, Man is nothing, and God all in all; that no flesh might glory in his presence, 1 Cor. 1.27, 28, 29.
5. If fore-sight of mens Works be the cause of their Election, then man hath whereof to glory. He is then the cause of his own Salvation. Election is the Original of all, a spring that runneth under ground for a time; first bubleth up and discovers it self in effectual Calling, so glideth along in a life of Faith & Holiness, and at last emptieth it self in the Ocean of Peace, and Joy, and Happiness: ⟨p. 102⟩So that if man be the Cause of his Election, then he may thank himself for his Salvation. John is no more beholden to God than Judas, for 'tis the improvement of the freedom of his Will which brings him to Heaven. God did as much for Judas (say they) as for John. But how contrary is this to the word of Truth?