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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 35: Arguments against Omissions. Christ purchased positive as well as negative Holiness, an…
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CHAP. XXXV. Arguments against Omissions. Christ purchased positive as well as negative Holiness, and our Privileges oblige to both.
CHAP. XXXV. Arguments against Omissions. Christ purchased positive as well as negative Holiness, and our Priviledges oblige to both.
3. Consider Christ died to purchase positive as well as negative godliness for men; and wilt thou disappoint him of the Fruits of his Death? Indeed, if it had been possible for him to have bought mans deliverance from sin, without the re-impression of Gods Image on the Soul, he had been but half a Saviour, and made us at the most but half happy: But according to the Apostles phrase, he saves perfectly, or to the utmost, upon all accounts, and in all respects, Heb. 7.25. and in order thereunto, bought man off from sin, and unto the Service of God. He redeems us from sin: We are redeemed, saith the ⟨p. 297⟩Apostle, from our vain Conversation received by tradition from our Fathers. Not with corruptible things, as Silver and Gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a Lamb without spot and blemish, 1 Pet. 1.17, 18, 19. He redeems also unto his own Service, Chap. 3. vers. 18. of the same Epistle, He suffered, the Just for the Unjust, to bring us to God. He died, that we might die to sin; and he died, that we might live to God. He suffered, to bring us off from our cursed loathsome Lusts; and he suffered, to bring us to the Fear, and Love, and Service of the blessed and glorious Lord. We have both these ends of our Saviours Sufferings mentioned in