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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 26: 1. Use. Of the Doctrine by way of Informamation: How dreadful will be the Condition of…
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.
What Tongue can tell the misery that will befall such Sinners at the Great Day? If not relieving the Poor, and not supplying the Needy, and not visiting the Fatherless and Widow, the Sick and Imprisoned, cause such a severe ⟨p. 197⟩Sentence to be denounced against them, as, Go ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the Devil and his Angels for ever; what Sentence shall be denounced against those that grind the faces of the Poor, that make Music of their Moans, Isa. 3.15. That sell them for a pair of shoes, Amos 2.6. Who oppress the Poor, and crush the Needy, Amos 4.1. And who slay the Widow and Fatherless?
What Tongue can tell the misery that will befal such Sinners at the Great Day? If not relieving the Poor, and not supplying the Needy, and not visiting the Fatherless and Widow, the Sick and Imprisoned, cause such a severe ⟨p. 197⟩Sentence to be denounced against them, as, Go ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the Devil and his Angels for ever; what Sentence shall be denounced against those that grind the faces of the Poor, that make Musick of their Moans, Isa. 3.15. That sell them for a pair of shooes, Amos 2.6. Who oppress the Poor, and crush the Needy, Amos 4.1. And who slay the Widow and Fatherless?
Go to you rich men, weep and howl, for the miseries that shall come upon you. Your Riches are corrupted, and your Garments moth-eaten. Your Gold and Silver is cankered, and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Behold, the hire of the Labourers, which have reaped down your Fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them that have reaped, are entered into the Ears of the Lord of the Sabbath. Ye have condemned and killed the Just, and he doth not resist you,