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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.
Chapter 21: The agreement and difference between sins of Omission and sins of Commission.
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.
1. They agree in the Authority forbidding them. The same God forbids each sin; He that saith, Thou shalt not kill: The same saith, Thou shalt serve me diligently, Exod. 20. Jer. 48.10. Matth. 22.37. With all thy heart, Matth. 7.13.
2. They are both against the same particular Command. In the same Command wherein he forbids theft, he commands diligence in our Callings, and the use of all lawful means for the increase of our own Estates. In the same Law wherein he forbids Uncleanness, He commands Care and endeavour to preserve our own and our Neighbours Chastity.
2. They are both against the same particular Command. In the same Command wherein he forbids theft, he commands diligence in our Callings, and the use of all lawful means for the increase of our own Estates. In the same Law wherein he forbids Ʋncleanness, He commands Care and endeavour to preserve our own and our Neighbours Chastity.
3. They are both a privation of that Rectitude which is required by the Law to the goodness of every action. For if ⟨p. 137⟩malitia moralis, non est quid positivum, If there be nothing positive in the formal nature of sin, according to the Schoolmen, (as there can be nothing positive in it, unless we will make God the Author of it,) but a want of a conformity to the Law; then every Commission is an Omission in this respect, and so they agree in their formal nature.