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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.
First, These sins of Omission are to be distinguished in regard of substance, manner or measure.
1. When a duty is omitted in regard of the matter of it, as when men pray not, give not to the Poor, hear not the Word, &c. these omit the substance of the Duty. Of such as those God complains, There is none that looketh after God, Rom. 3.11. And again, They will will not hear the Law of the Lord, Isa. 30.9. And he that turneth away his Ears from the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard, Prov. ⟨p. 128⟩21.13. These are most deeply guilty before God. They show their utter contempt of him, and openly manifest it to others; when they omit to relieve the Poor, to pray in their Families, or to attend public praying and preaching; hereby they are scandalous and offensive. They grieve the godly, Rivers of tears run down mine eyes, because the wicked forsake thy Laws, Psal. 119. and they harden the wicked. When ungodly men see others neglect all Religion, they are encouraged in their Atheism and Irreligion; and presuming others are wise, and that themselves shall fare as well as others. As it was said of those, Ezek. 13.21. so it may be said of these; They strengthen the hands of the wicked. Again, these are guilty in all respects; they who offend in the matter of a Command, by neglecting the Duty it self in the substance thereof, offend in the manner and measure also; but they who offend in the manner and measure, may not offend in the matter.