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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 36: Arguments against Omissions. We profess our selves Gods Servants, and all our Religion…
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5. Consider you are the professed Servants of God, and will you not do your Masters business? You are baptized in the Name of the Father, Son, ⟨p. 306⟩and Holy Ghost; you own your Baptism, by your attendance on God (though but sometimes) in public Ordinances. You wear the Livery of Christ before the World, and if any ask you, what you are? you say a Christian; or whose you are? you say you belong to Jesus Christ. And, Friend, will you pretend to be Gods Servant, and neglect his business? This is but to put a mock and cheat upon him; like him in the Gospel, who when he was bid go work in the Vineyard, said, I go, but went not. If I be a Master, where is your fear, Mal. 1.7. If God be your Master, where is your fear of displeasing him, either by neglecting what he enjoins, or doing what he forbids. True, Servants are not at their own, but at their Masters pleasure and disposal, as the Centurions Soldiers, when the Master saith, Go, they go, when he saith, Come, they come; when he saith, Do this, they do it, Matth. 8.9. The Redeemer himself, when he took upon him the form of a Servant, and became so to his Father, Phil. 2.7. Isa. 53.10. did not what he himself would: I came not to do mine own will, but the will ⟨p. 307⟩of him that sent me, Joh. 6.38. And as the Father gave me Commandment, so do I, Joh. 14.31. And to show his faithfulness in that relation, when he came to die, he tells his Father, I have glorified thee on the Earth, and finished the work thou hast given me to do, Joh. 17. Nay, the very irrational and inanimate Creatures are the Servants of God, and as such do him positive service. The Psalmist speaks of the Heavens and the Earth, with the Creatures therein. All are thy Servants, at thy beck and bidding, at thy call and command,