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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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CHAP. XXX. Sinners Conviction at the Day of Judgment. The purity of Christs Religion above all others.
16. IF Christ will say to them on the left hand, Depart from me. For I was Hungry and ye gave me no meat. Or if Christ will condemn men for sins of Omission at the Great Day: It informs us, That Christ will be rational in his most severe proceedings, even to the Conviction of the Sinners own Conscience. I draw this from the Coherence of the verses, Christ first pronounceth the Sentence, vers. 41. Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire. And then vers. 42. he gives the reason, For I was hungry, and ye gave me no meat, &c. which (though at first they seem to question, yet) at last they are muzzled and put to silence. Jude tells us of solemn Condemnation and solemn Conviction of these ungodly Ones, as the chief business of that Day. Behold he cometh with ten thousand of his ⟨p. 135⟩Saints to execute Judgment on all, and to convince all that are ungodly amongst them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodlily committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly Sinners have spoken against him, Jude, 14, 15. Execution, by an Hysteron Proteron, is put before Conviction; yet one great work of that Great Day is to convince these ungodly Ones, and the severity of the Process is against the Ungodly.
16. IF Christ will say to them on the left hand, Depart from me. For I was Hungry and ye gave me no meat. Or if Christ will condemn men for sins of Omission at the Great Dy: It informs us, That Christ will be rational in his most severe proceedings, even to the Conviction of the Sinners own Conscience. I draw this from the Coherence of the verses, Christ first pronounceth the Sentence, vers. 41. Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire. And then vers. 42. he gives the reason, For I was hungry, and ye gave me no meat, &c. which (though at first they seem to question, yet) at last they are muzled and put to silence. Jude tells us of solemn Condemnation and solemn Conviction of these ungodly Ones, as the chief businesse of that Day. Behold he cometh with ten thousand of his