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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 37: Arguments against Omissions. God deserves our positive Obedience before all others; and…
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Or is it the Flesh thou art so fond of? ⟨p. 319⟩why, that's but a poor piece; it's deceitful, and will cozen thee, Jer. 17.9. It hath such a depth of deceit in it, that neither thou nor any other Creature can fathom it. And is it good to be a Servant to so treacherous a Master? it's dying, and will forsake thee, Psal. 73.25. It must shortly be laid in the dust, become food for Worms; nay, be turned into dust. And canst thou think this clod of Clay, this lump of Earth, this sink of Filthiness, this receptacle of crawling Vermin, a fit Master to rule over a Soul that is of Celestial extraction, of a spiritual angelical Nature, and of an eternal duration. Surely, Reader, thou art no debtor to the Flesh, to live after the Flesh, Rom. 8.12. Thou owest thy Flesh nothing, but care and watchfulness to keep it under, and to subdue it, that it lord it not over thy Spirit. If thou servest the Flesh once, thou servest it too much by once; for thou art no debtor to it, and dost not owe it the least Service imaginable, but in subordination to thy Soul and Saviour: Surely then, if neither the Devil, nor the World, nor ⟨p. 320⟩the Flesh deserve thy positive Obedience, God must. Reader, let me come up a little closer to thee; I pray who hath laid most Obligations on thee, God or they? To whom art thou most indebted to God or to them? Did they give thee thy Being, when thou wast nothing? Did they form thee and fashion thee in thy Mothers Womb? Was it by them that thou wast born? Did they look after thee in thine Infancy, and cause Mercy all along to grow up with thee? Have any of them protected thee in thy Dangers, supported thee in thy Difficulties, supplied thee in thy Wants, or delivered thee out of thy Distresses? Who spreads thy Table, and blesseth thy Food to thee every day? Who makes thy Bed, and commandeth sleep for thee every night? Whose mercy is it thou livest, Gods or theirs? and through whose compassion is it that thou art not consumed? Whose visitation is it that preserveth thy Spirit? Who defendeth thee night and day from Devils and damned Spirits, who watch continually to drag thee to their own Den and Dungeon of ⟨p. 321⟩