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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.
3. When the omission is in regard of the measure of the Duty; As when a man gives Alms, but not answerable to his Estate; though God hath filled his Belly with hidden treasures, and waters of a full Cup are wrung out to him, and he is able to give pounds to poor indigent Families, he puts them off with a few pence, or at most shillings, this is an omission in regard of the measure. God expects charitable Contributions from men answerable to his Bounty to them, 1 Cor. 16.2. Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that ⟨p. 131⟩there be no gatherings when I come. According to the measure of the Divine Mercy to us, such should be the measure of our Charity to others. According to the seed thrown into the Earth, is the Crop returned by the good ground. Therefore to make scanty Returns, when we have large Receipts, is a sin of omission: So when men pray, but not with that frequency which they might and ought. The Command is, To pray continually, to pray without ceasing, to pray evermore.
3. When the omission is in regard of the measure of the Duty; As when a man gives Alms, but not answerable to his Estate; though God hath filled his Belly with hidden treasures, and waters of a full Cup are wrung out to him, and he is able to give pounds to poor indigent Families, he puts them off with a few pence, or at most shillings, this is an omission in regard of the measure. God expects charitable Contributions from men answerable to his Bounty to them, 1 Cor. 16.2. Ʋpon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that ⟨p. 131⟩there be no gatherings when I come. According to the measure of the Divine Mercy to us, such should be the measure of our Charity to others. According to the seed thrown into the Earth, is the Crop return'd by the good ground. Therefore to make scanty Returns, when we have large Receipts, is a sin of omission: So when men pray, but not with that frequency which they might and ought. The Command is, To pray contiuually, to pray without ceasing, to pray evermore.