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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.
Reason. 1 1. The great and grand Reason is, because they are Sins. Every sin is damnable: The wages of sin (as sin) is death, Temporal, Spiritual, and Eternal, Rom. 6. ult. Therefore these Omissions being sins as well as Commissions, must of necessity be damnable to our Souls. As there is bitterness in every Sprig or Branch of Wormwood, and saltness in every drop or spoonful of Sea-water; so there is Death and Hell, and Wrath and Damnation in every Sin. The wicked Papists distinguish Sins into ⟨p. 173⟩Venial and Mortal, but they got that distinction from the Devil, not from God; they have their seven deadly sins; But the Holy Ghost tells us, All sins are deadly, without any distinction, Gal. 3.10. Though one Sin may be greater and more heinous than another, yet every sin is mortal. A Pistol is less than a Musket, and a Musket than a Canon; but they are all of them killing; Ezek. 18. The Soul that sins shall die. Under the word death is comprehended all the misery of this and the other World. Sin being a contempt of the Authority, a violation of the Law, and a slighting the Love of an infinite God, deserves all that privation of Good, and infliction of Evil which this Sentence of Christ includes, Go ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the Devil and his Angels. God cannot inflict a greater punishment, nor can a finite limited Creature bear greater Torments than Sin (being of infinite demerit) requires and calls for.
Reason. 1 1. The great and grand Reason is, because they are Sins. Every sin is damnable: The wages of sin (as sin) is death, Temporal, Spiritual, and Eternal, Rom. 6. ult. Therefore these Omissions being sins as well as Commissions, must of necessity be damnable to our Souls. As there is bitterness in every Sprig or Branch of Wormwood, and saltness in every drop or spoonful of Sea-water; so there is Death and Hell, and Wrath and Damnation in every Sin. The wicked Papists distinguish Sins into ⟨p. 173⟩