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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.
This Conviction implieth:
This Conviction implyeth:
1. A reflection of Conscience upon all their past and former sins. Conscience, as a Glass, shall represent to the Sinner all his lusts (which he hath loved above his Soul and Saviour) in all their ugly features, and loathsome colours: The Books at that day will be opened, Rev. 20.12. i. e. The Book of Gods Remembrance, Mal. 3. and the Book of Conscience. Sins are not gone as soon as done; God records them in his Book of Remembrance, and Conscience will review them all in that Day of Vengeance. Though it could not be heard by the Sinner in this World, for the noise of his carnal delights, and cry of his ⟨p. 236⟩worldly delights; yet when it sets his sins in order before his eyes in their monstrous frightful shapes, it will thunder in his Ears as Reuben to his Brethren, Did not I tell you of this, and say, Do not sin, and thou wouldst not hear; therefore all this Wrath, and Fury, and Flames, and Darkness, and Chains, are come upon thee.
2. This Conviction implieth a silencing the Sinner, that he will have nothing to say either against God, or for himself. A man that is convinced, hath his mouth stopped. When the Spirit convinceth the World of sin, the World hath not a word to say against the Sin and Guilt, which the Law chargeth on it. Every mouth is stopped, and all the World is guilty before God. How often is the poor Creature self-convinced and self-condemned here; but soon after the sick qualms go off his stomach, and he is revived with the Cordials of sinful shifts and excuses, wherewith he deludes himself, and presumes he may also deceive God; but at the Great Day, as his Convictions will be more killing, so they will be more lasting. The man will be dumb and speechless when Christ