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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 37: Arguments against Omissions. God deserves our positive Obedience before all others; and…
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.
For the world, what is in it that should deserve thy service? I am sure God made the World for thee, and not thee for the World; and the end is more excellent than the means: God made the World to serve thee, and not thee to serve the World. Is it Riches that thou ⟨p. 317⟩payest thy Homage to? Ah how infinitely inferior are they to thy spiritual Soul! Is it not a rare lovely sight to see a noble Heaven-born immortal Spirit truckle, and bow, and submit, and be a drudge and slave to white and yellow dust, to the guts and garbage of the Earth? Is not this a fine sight thinkest thou, for thy Love and Desires, and Joys and Delights, like Moles to be grovelling in the Earth, when high and noble Objects worthy of them are always before thee expecting them?
For the world, what is in it that should deserve thy service? I am sure God made the World for thee, and not thee for the World; and the end is more excellent than the means: God made the World to serve thee, and not thee to serve the World. Is it Riches that thou ⟨p. 317⟩payest thy Homage to? Ah how infinitely inferior are they to thy spiritual Soul! Is it not a rare lovely sight to see a noble Heaven-born immortal Spirit truckle, and bow, and submit, and be a drudge and slave to white and yellow dust, to the guts and garbage of the Earth? Is not this a fine sight thinkst thou, for thy Love and Desires, and Joys and Delights, like Moles to be grovelling in the Earth, when high and noble Objects worthy of them are always before thee expecting them?
Or is it the Honour of the World which thou adorest? Dost thou know what an Idol thou hast set up in thine heart? A Vapour, a Wind, the stinking breath of a company of ignorant vile people, who understand nothing of true worth or excellency. Where is this? or what is this God whom thou worshippest? a fashion, [Greek or Hebrew], 1 Cor. 7.31. a mathematical Figure, somewhat in show, nothing in substance, [Greek or Hebrew], a fancy,