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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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Those among the Heathen who were the wisest, made nothing of neglecting to give God their love, and fear, and trust, their highest Honour, and superlative Esteem, and exactest Obedience, which are the chief of Religion. They allowed Revenge, in case of suffering Injury; and some of their greatest Law-givers ordained Theft to be unpunishable, ⟨p. 241⟩if it could be done cleanly and cleverly, so as not to be found out. They put away their Wives upon any small distaste, and took others during their pleasure only. Their whole Religion hath not one Prohibition against inward Corruptions, nor one Precept for inward heart Duties; and therefore must of necessity come short of the Christian Religion for Purity.
Those among the Heathen who were the wisest, made nothing of neglecting to give God their love, and fear, and trust, their highest Honour, and superlative Esteem, and exactest Obedience, which are the chief of Religion. They allowed Revenge, in case of suffering Injury; and some of their greatest Law-givers ordained Theft to be unpunishable, ⟨p. 241⟩if it could be done cleanly and cleaverly, so as not to be found out. They put away their Wives upon any small distast, and took others during their pleasure only. Their whole Religion hath not one Prohibition against inward Corruptions, nor one Precept for inward heart Duties; and therefore must of necessity come short of the Christian Religion for Purity.
2. If we consider the Turkish Religion, what a bundle of fooleries is Mahomets Alcoran, and what a dunghill of filthiness is the Religion of his Followers. They allow a man as many Wives as he can maintain, and encourage men to murder, with a promise of a (Poetical, carnal) Paradise to all that shall die in the Wars against the Christians. They obey the Lusts of their Tyrant in all things, even to the murder of their Sovereigns nearest Relations, or chiefest Ministers of State, against the very light and law of Nature. They do not so much as profess to mind those heart Prohibitions and Precepts, without which all external Holiness is but as a rotten Carcass, noisome and unsavoury to