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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. 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 ⟨p. 242⟩Gods Nostrils, and without any loveliness or life in his Eyes. Nay, the Popish Religion, so far as it differs from the true Christian Religion, is impure. They have sins that are Venial, allow publicly of Uncleanness. The Pope hath a Revenue out of the Stews; they dispense with Sodomy, incest, any Sin for money: They place all their Holiness in some external Mortifications, which God never required at their hands. But what doth the Christian Religion do? It reacheth the Heart, and teacheth the Soul: The Law of the Lord is perfect, Psal. 19.
2. If we consider the Turkish Religion, what a bundle of fooleries is Mahomets Alcoran, and what a dunghil 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 Soveraigns 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 Carkass, noisome and unsavoury to ⟨p. 242⟩Gods Nostrils, and without any loveliness or life in his Eyes. Nay, the Popish Religion, so far as it differs from the true Christian Religion, is impure. They have sins that are Venial, allow publickly of Uncleanness. The Pope hath a Revenue out of the Stews; they dispense with Sodomy, incest, any Sin for money: They place all their Holiness in some external Mortifications, which God never required at their hands. But what doth the Christian Religion do? It reacheth the Heart, and teacheth the Soul: The Law of the Lord is perfect,