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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.
Chapter 33: A Caution against sins of Omission, in regard of the matter of Duties.
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.
If thou wert gone, there might be one in thy House, Place, Lodging, kept and maintained by the Great House-keeper of the World, with the same Mercies with which thou livest, that should adorn the Gospel, glorify the Name of God, and edify the Souls of others; and dost thou no harm then by hindering such a one? Is not the Drone hurtful, which idleth all the day, and lives upon the Bees labour, and forceth them sometimes to want, because of her Theft? Is not the Wem in the Body hurtful, when it serves to no use; yet sucks away the nourishment from other parts of the Body. Doth not that ⟨p. 281⟩Factor wrong the Master who employs him, if he let his stock lie still, though he do not waste it in Riotousness, and Drunkenness, and Filthiness, when the Master might have had one in his place who would have traded with it; and (probably) have improved it to his great advantage? Did ever any Merchant trust a Servant with a stock to lie by him? Nay, is Nature it self content with the removal of what is oppressive? doth it not long and breath after what is perfective? Is not the presence of malum, what is evil, a burden? So the absence of bonum, what is good, occasion of complaint? There is ingrafted within us not only Bados, a depth of distaste against feared Evils; but also Hiatus, large desires after known Good. As Nature, much more doth Religion call men off what is bad, and provoke men to what is right, and just, and good.
If thou wert gone, there might be one in thy House, Place, Lodging, kept and maintain'd by the Great House-keeper of the World, with the same Mercies with which thou livest, that should adorn the Gospel, glorifie the Name of God, and edifie the Souls of others; and dost thou no harm then by hindring such a one? Is not the Drone hurtful, which idleth all the day, and lives upon the Bees labour, and forceth them sometimes to want, because of her Theft? Is not the Wem in the Body hurtful, when it serves to no use; yet sucks away the nourishment from other parts of the Body. Doth not that ⟨p. 281⟩Factor wrong the Master who imploys him, if he let his stock lie still, though he do not waste it in Riotousness, and Drunkenness, and Filthiness, when the Master might have had one in his place who would have traded with it; and (probably) have improved it to his great advantage? Did ever any Merchant trust a Servant with a stock to lie by him? Nay, is Nature it self content with the removal of what is oppressive? doth it not long and breath after what is perfective? Is not the presence of malum, what is evil, a burden? So the absence of bonum, what is good, occasion of complaint? There is ingrafted within us not only Bados, a depth of distast against feared Evils; but also Hiatus, large desires after known Good. As Nature, much more doth Religion call men off what is bad, and provoke men to what is right, and just, and good.