The sinners last sentence to eternal punishment, for sins of omission

1. More generally, a sin of Omission is a neglect of some Duty commanded us in the Word of God.

In every Command, there is a Precept and a Prohibition. A Precept enjoining, and a Prohibition forbidding. A Precept enjoining some Duty, and a Prohibition forbidding the contrary. The neglect of doing what the Precept enjoins, is a sin of Omission, and the doing what the Precept forbids is a sin of commission.

In every Command, there is a Precept and a Prohibition. A Precept enjoyning, and a Prohibition forbidding. A Precept enjoyning some Duty, and a Prohibition forbidding the contrary. The neglect of doing what the Precept enjoyns, is a sin of Omission, and the doing what the Precept forbids is a sin of commission.

The truth is, in every Commission there is an Omission; as in every deadly Disease somewhat of a Fever. For in ⟨p. 124⟩every Commission, as in Drunkenness, or Oppression, or Uncleanness, there is a neglect or omission of the Duty commanded, as Temperance, Charity, and Chastity. But those we most properly call sins of Omission, which are extrinsicate from sins of Commission; as not praying, not reading the Word, not believing, not feeding the hungry, &c. But to speak strictly, there is no sin but sins of Omission; for all sin consists in privation of due rectitude or deficiency, and coming short of the rule. Though the Commands are generally delivered by way of negation, partly because of the proneness of men to commit those sins that are forbidden, and God would by his Negative command, curb, and keep them in. Thou shalt not, &c. thou shalt not, &c. partly because Negative Commands bind more strongly than the Affirmative. The Affirmative obligant semper, but not ad semper; but the Negative bind semper & ad semper, as the School-men speak. The Affirmative bind us always, (i. e. there is no time wherein it can be said that they are of no force,) but not to all times. I