A62053:388
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.
CHAP. XXXI. The holiest have cause of humiliation.
8. IF Christ will condemn men at the Great Day for sins of Omission; I was hungry, and ye gave me no meat, &c. ⟨p. 249⟩Then it may inform us, That the best have abundant cause of humiliation; for the best have in them abundant matter of Condemnation. O how many are our Omissions every day, every hour, and by reason of them we are obnoxious to Hell flames? Good Bishop Usher, who for Piety and Learning, was honoured through the Christian World; though he was early converted, and feared the Lord in his Youth; though he was eminently industrious in private, in his Family, in catechising, and instructing, and praying often every day with, and for them that were committed to his Charge. Though he was a constant Preacher, and that with Judgment and Affection; Though he was singularly famous for his many worthy pieces which he wrote in Latin and English, yet after all this diligence and labour, when he came to die,1 the last words almost which he was heard to speak, were, Lord, in special forgive my Sins of Omission. Sins of Omission will at death lie heavier on our hearts than we think for in life. If such a laborious person found cause of bewailing his Omissions, surely ⟨p. 250⟩much more cause have Loiterers as we are.
8. IF Christ will condemn men at the Great Day for sins of Omission; I was hungry, and ye gave me no meat, &c. ⟨p. 249⟩Then it may inform us, That the best have abundant cause of humiliation; for the best have in them abundant matter of Condemnation. O how many are our Omissions every day, every hour, and by reason of them we are obnoxious to Hell flames? Good Bishop Ʋsher, who for Piety and Learning, was honoured through the Christian World; though he was early converted, and feared the Lord in his Youth; though he was eminently industrious in private, in his Family, in chatechising, and instructing, and praying often every day with, and for them that were committed to his Charge. Though he was a constant Preacher, and that with Judgment and Affection; Though he was singularly famous for his many worthy pieces which he wrote in Latin and English, yet after all this diligence and labour, when he came to die,