The sinners last sentence to eternal punishment, for sins of omission

1. Consider the Law which God hath given us for the Rule of our Lives, is both positive and negative; and therefore our Obedience must be such. What need positive Precepts, but to require positive Practices? Single Prohibitions would have sufficed for a negative Religion. The Law is holy, (in its Commands that immediately concern God) just, (in what it commands concerning our Neighbours) and good, (in what it commands concerning our selves) Rom. 7.12. Look to the Moral Law, every negative command hath a positive Precept. Take the Prophets all along that ⟨p. 289⟩speak in the Name of the Lord, and we shall find that they still enjoin Duty, as well as forbid Sin, Deut. 12.29. to the end. Take heed that thou be not snared by following the Nations that are destroyed before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these Nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. Here is Sin forbidden: But mark also Duty is commanded, What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it. Nay, a Copy of this Law both positive and negative must be written out by the Magistrate, that we might observe it; and it was also written in a Book by Moses, and put into the Ark, as a witness against the Israelites, if they should not observe it, Deut. 31.24, 25, 26. Joshua succeeds Moses in his Charge over the Jews, and in his Commands to them both affirmatively and negatively, Joshua 23.7. Samuel follows after and speaks the same Language, Serve the Lord with all your heart, fear him, and serve him in truth: And turn ye not aside, for then ye should go after vain things, which cannot profit or deliver, for they are ⟨p. 290⟩vain, 1 Sam. 12.20, 21, 24. David doth the like, Depart from evil, and do good,