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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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Secondly, The danger of sins of Omission; though men are ready to conceive that sins of Omission, because they make no great cry in the World, are but infirmities, are venial sins, and are not much to be regarded, as having little of danger to the Soul in them; yet the contrary will appear plainly, if we consider these particulars.
Secondly, THe danger of sins of Omission; though men are ready to conceive that sins of Omission, because they make no great cry in the World, are but infirmities, are venial sins, and are not much to be regarded, as having little of danger to the Soul in them; yet the contrary will appear plainly, if we consider these particulars.
1. The malignity and sinfulness of them speaks their danger. The more venom and poison there is in any Cup or Dish, the more dangerous it must needs be; the more sinfulness there is in any sin, the more hazardous it is to the Soul. Now I shall show the sinfulness of omissions.
1. The malignity and sinfulness of them speaks their danger. The more venome and poyson there is in any Cup or Dish, the more dangerous it must needs be; the more sinfulness there is in any sin, the more hazardous it is to the Soul. Now I shall shew the sinfulness of omissions.
1. They are most against the mind and will of God. Those sins are the greatest, which most cross the Will of the Law-giver; ⟨p. 144⟩For sin is a transgression of the Law, or Mind, of God. And every one knoweth that the Mind of God is more in the Precept, or Affirmative part of the Law, than in the Prohibition, or Negative part of it. The Precept or performance of the Duty commanded is the main thing, the Prohibition is, as it were, accidental, in order to our Obedience to the Precept;