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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.
1. Observ. That the omission of inward Charity is included in this of outward, and will be as dangerous, if not more at the Great Day. The subject of it, the Soul is much more noble than the Body; therefore to suffer a Soul to perish through our neglect of giving it spiritual Alms is a greater sin, than to suffer the outward man to perish for want of bodily Alms. Again, the end of spiritual Alms is higher, (than of bodily) the eternal Salvation of the Soul, 1 Pet. 1.9. Receiving the end of your Faith, the eternal salvation of your Souls. Both sorts of Charity are comprehended into these two verses.
Visito, Poto, Cibo Redimo, Tego, Colligo, Condo; Consul, Castiga, Solar, Remit, Fer, Ora.
Visito, Poto, Cibo Redimo, Tego, Colligo, Condo; Consule, Castiga, Solare, Remitte, Fer, Ora.
2. Observ. That other Works, beside Works of Charity, and other Omissions, beside the Omission of this Duty, will be mentioned at that Day, and men shall be judged according to them. Indeed all our Works will be then accounted for. But you will say, What time will this take up. I answer, It seems probable, that the day of Judgment may last longer than most imagine. The Holy Ghost tells us, That God will bring every Work into Judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good? or whether it be evil? Eccles. 12. ult. If every Work, then more than acts of Charity; and if every Work good or bad, open or secret, then the day of Judgment must be a long day. The Apostle speaks the same as to the matter of Judgment, with the wise man, We must all appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ,