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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
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Total omissions are, when men wholly neglect the Duties commanded, as when ⟨p. 133⟩they altogether cast off Praying, and Hearing, and giving Alms, and examining their own hearts; Psal. 14.3, 4. They are all gone aside, there is none that doth good: They call not upon God. A man may read the Word Atheist in the fore-heads of these men. They carry about them where-ever they go the sign and mark of Condemnation. They please themselves possibly that they do not abound in scandalous sins of Commission, not considering that they may be guilty of self-murder, as well by starving or not feeding their Souls, as by stabbing or poisoning their Souls.
Total omissions are, when men wholly neglect the Duties commanded, as when ⟨p. 133⟩they altogether cast off Praying, and Hearing, and giving Alms, and examining their own hearts; Psal. 14.3, 4. They are all gone aside, there is none that doth good: They call not upon God. A man may read the Word Atheist in the fore-heads of these men. They carry about them where-ever they go the sign and mark of Condemnation. They please themselves possibly that they do not abound in scandalous sins of Commission, not considering that they may be guilty of self-murther, as well by starving or not feeding their Souls, as by stabbing or poisoning their Souls.
2. Partial Omissions are, when men do sometimes perform the Duties commanded, but not with that constancy which they ought, Job 15.4. Thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God; i. e. Thou imprisonest Prayer, and dost not afford it the liberty it formerly had: It was wont to appear every day openly, but now it is kept in, and shows it self but seldom.