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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.
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 ⟨p. 237⟩shall say, Why didst thou deny to relieve my Servants in their wants? Why didst thou slight my Blood, neglect my Worship, grieve my Spirit, and omit to obey my positive Laws? Matth. 22.3, 4, 5. The very Heathen who shall be imprisoned in the dark dungeon of Hell, for imprisoning the Truth, and holding it in unrighteousness, will not have a motion in their Breasts of accusing God for false Imprisonment. How certainly then and how fully will the Consciences of Christians, who lived under the Gospel, justify God, when he shall condemn them for not believing, and not repenting, upon the Messages he sent to them of pardon and life.
2. This Conviction implyeth 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 stop'd. 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 stoped, 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 ⟨p. 237⟩shall say, Why didst thou deny to relieve my Servants in their wants? Why didst thou slight my Blood, neglect my Worship, grieve my Spirit, and omit to obey my positive Laws?