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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.
2. When the omission is in regard of the manner of the duties performance; ⟨p. 129⟩As when men do pray, but they pray not uprightly, with the heart, Jer. 12.2. Thou art nigh their mouths, but far from their reins. Nor earnestly, with their whole heart, and with all their heart, and all the powers of their Souls, as the Precept is, Jer. 29.13. and that Prayer to which the Promise is annexed, James 5.16. But pray (as if they prayed not) formally, and customarily, and carelessly; scarce hearing themselves, and no wonder then if God hear them not; they pray not reverently, with the awe of God upon their Spirits, but are rash in their words, and irreverent in their hearts, Eccles. 5.1, 2. So when men give Alms, but do not give cheerfully, with a free, willing, ready heart; For God loves a cheerful giver, 2 Cor. 9.17. Nor seasonably, when it may do most good, Prov. 3.18. Say not to thy Neighbour, Go and come again to morrow, when thou hast it by thee. So when men hear the Word, but hear not awfully, in the fear of God, as in the presence of God, Acts 10.33. We are all here present before God, to hear all things commanded thee of God: Neither hear ⟨p. 130⟩believingly, giving their assent to what they hear, and applying it to their own Souls. The Word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it, Heb. 4.2. These, and such like, though they are not guilty of omission, in regard of the matter of a Duty; yet they are guilty of omission, in regard of the manner of it; though they do the thing commanded, yet they do it not as it is commanded, and so are guilty of the breach of a positive Law and Command.