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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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Chapter 34: Arguments against Omissions. The positiveness of our Rule, and of Gods Mercies.
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.
This is the Voice of the Law of God, and therefore, Reader, either thou must betake thy self to practical godliness, or else disown the Scriptures for thy rule ⟨p. 292⟩and square. Thy Duty must (at least in thy desires and endeavours) carry some proportion to thy standard and rule, or else thy Religion is a mere cypher, and signifieth nothing.
This is the Voice of the Law of God, and therefore, Reader, either thou must betake thy self to practical godliness, or else disown the Scriptures for thy rule ⟨p. 292⟩and square. Thy Duty must (at least in thy desires and endeavours) carry some proportion to thy standard and rule, or else thy Religion is a meer cypher, and signifieth nothing.
So far as the best come short of the Law they sin, 1 Joh. 5.3. Sin is a transgression of the Law. And that because the Law is given to him as a rule of Life, God hath therefore qualified it with the properties of a Rule: 1. A Rule must be perfect, and not defective, not redundant; The Law of the Lord is perfect, Psal. 19.7. 2. A Rule must be plain, not dark; All her ways are plain to him that understandeth. 3. A Rule must be published and known, otherwise it's a snare to entrap men. God hath proclaimed his Law; The Command is not hidden from thee, nor far off, Deut. 30.11. It's not in Heaven, that thou shouldst say, Who shall go up for us thither, and fetch it thence, that we may hear it, and do it? Nor beyond the Seas. But the Word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, (12, 13, 14, verses,) that thou mayst do them. 4. A Rule is that by which men shall be judged, so is this Law,