The sinners last sentence to eternal punishment, for sins of omission

IN the second place,¹ If Christ will condemn men at the Great Day for sins of Omission, it may inform us, that a negative Religion, or negative Christianity, is not enough. Many please themselves that they are Gracious, because they are not openly Vicious; and that they are Pious, because they are not scandalously Profane; but they mistake and deceive themselves. It is good not to do evil, but it is evil not to do good. Negative Christians are as it was said of Galba, Potius extra vitia quam cum virtute: Rather seemingly free from Vice, than really filled with Virtue. Or at best, as was reported of Cato, That he was homo virtuti simillimus, A man that looked like a virtuous person.

IN the second place,¹ If Christ will condemn men at the Great Day for sins of Omission, it may inform us, that a negative Religion, or negative Christianity, is not enough. Many please themselves that they are Gracious, because they are not openly Vicious; and that they are Pious, because they are not scandalously Prophane; but they mistake and deceive themselves. It is good not to do evil, but it is evil not to do good. Negative Christians are as it was said of Galba, Potius extra vitia quam cum virtute: Rather seemingly free from Vice, than really filled with Virtue. Or at best, as was reported of Cato, That he was homo virtuti simillimus, A man that looked like a virtuous person.

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How many civil men presume their persons holy, because they are not so filthy as those who rake in Ditches and Kennels, and defile themselves daily ⟨p. 206⟩with scandalous Abominations; and they presume their states to be good, and themselves in the way to Heaven, because they are no Drunkards, no Swearers, no Adulterers, no Thieves, no Murderers; when for all this they shall be cast to Hell, because they are no Believers, no Penitents, no obedient Subjects to the King of Saints, Because they know not God, and obey not the Gospel,