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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.
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.
4. It must be perpetual; That continueth not. If in one day, one hour, one moment of his life he fail, he is undone. If a man could be obedient to the whole Law all the time of his life, and should ⟨p. 176⟩in his dying-hour disobey it; the Law would take no notice of all his former Obedience, but sent him to Hell for his latter Disobedience. For mark the state of those that yield not this perfect, personal, perpetual, practical Obedience. Their Condition is cursed; Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things written in the Book of the Law to do them. In the word cursed, all evil is included. So that Omissions, or the neglect of those Duties which the Law requireth, being sins, they render the Creature liable to the Curse, which is indeed all manner of misery here and hereafter.
Death and Hell are the end of every Sin, though they are not the end of every Sinner; they are the reward of every evil Work, though not the reward of every evil Worker. Free Grace in the blood of Christ doth sometimes interpose, and put in an Exception to this general Rule. The Gospel accepted and pleaded, is a bar to those rigorous proceedings of the Law. Therefore though this Reason will justify Christ, and condemn the Sinner in the judgment ⟨p. 177⟩of his own Conscience, (especially this Sinner being under a Covenant of Works) yet I shall give farther Reasons from the Sinners non-interest in the Privileges of the Gospel.
Death and Hell are the end of every Sin, though they are not the end of every Sinner; they are the reward of every evil Work, though not the reward of every evil Worker. Free Grace in the blood of Christ doth sometimes interpose, and put in an Exception to this general Rule. The Gospel accepted and pleaded, is a bar to those rigorous proceedings of the Law. Therefore though this Reason will justifie Christ, and condemn the Sinner in the judgment ⟨p. 177⟩