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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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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.
Not doing good, fits the heart for doing evil: The ground not sown with good Corn, doth naturally of its own accord bring forth evil weeds. Indeed, it's impossible for him that doth no good, not to do evil. He that doth not gather with Christ, scattereth; and he that is not with me is against me, Matth. 12.30. He that fights not for his Prince in a day of Battle, is his Enemy; and that Servant who helps not his Master in Harvest, hinders him. Not to save a life when we may, is to destroy and murder it. The Negative Christian will quickly fall to be a positive Atheist and Heathen. If the Heart be empty of good, and swept clean of Grace, the unclean Spirit will quickly take up his lodging in it. Besides, God doth often judicially give up them to commit Evil, who refuse to do good. Because they received not the truth in the love of it, (here is a Sin of Omission) God gave them up to strong delusions, that they might believe a lye, &c. 2 Thess. 2.10, 11. Now how great and dangerous is this Sin, that ushers in so many Sins? Alas, one Sin is too weighty for thy Soul to bear; how ⟨p. 147⟩heavy then will that whole rabble and regiment of sins be, that one sin of Omission may bring along with it? If I live in Sins of Omission, Sins of Commission will follow both naturally and judicially.
Not doing good, fits the heart for doing evil: The ground not sown with good Corn, doth naturally of its own accord bring forth evil weeds. Indeed, it's impossible for him that doth no good, not to do evil. He that doth not gather with Christ, scattereth; and he that is not with me is against me, Matth. 12.30. He that fights not for his Prince in a day of Battel, is his Enemy; and that Servant who helps not his Master in Harvest, hinders him. Not to save a life when we may, is to destroy and murther it. The Negative Christian will quickly fall to be a positive Atheist and Heathen. If the Heart be empty of good, and swept clean of Grace, the unclean Spirit will quickly take up his logding in it. Besides, God doth often judicially give up them to commit Evil, who refuse to do good. Because they received not the truth in the love of it, (here is a Sin of Omission) God gave them up to strong delusions, that they might believe a lye, &c.