The sinners last sentence to eternal punishment, for sins of omission

CHAP. XXXIX. Arguments against sins of Omission. The new Nature in Believers inclines them to positive as well as negative Holiness, and the profit will answer the pains.

CHAP. XXXIX. Arguments against sins of Omssion. The new Nature in Believers inclines them to positive as well as negative Holiness, and the profit will answer the pains.

11. Consider if thou art a Believer, thy predominant new Nature inclines thee to positive as well as negative Holiness. And shall this be given thee in vain? shall God be at such cost and charge, as to infuse a principle of life into thee to no purpose? Pray observe what end God hath in this regenerating Work. Of his own Will begat he us again, by the Word of Truth, that we should be a kind of First-Fruits of his Creatures, Jam. 1.18. Where we have the causes of Regeneration: 1. The efficient Principal, He. 2. The moving, His alone Will. 3. The formal, Begat us again. 4. The instrumental, The Word of Truth. 5. The final, That we should be a kind of First-Fruits. God begets us again, that we should be devoted ⟨p. 337⟩to him; as the First-Fruits of all the sheaves were consecrated to God, and that out of thankfulness to him, for his innumerable blessings, Prov. 3.9. Rom. 12.1. The First-Fruits were holy to the Lord, and so should all Christians be. Again, he tells us his design in giving a new Spirit, and putting his Spirit into them, That they may walk in his Statutes, and do them, Ezek. 36.26, 27. So that 'tis Sacrilege, and God-robbery for a Christian to employ himself to the use of any but God, because he is devoted to God; and it's also below a Christian, as for a man to live as doth […] Beast; for him that hath a noble Diine Principle to live as other men. As all the Children of the first Adam derive from him a depraved Nature, which inclines them not only to omit what is good, but also to do what is evil; therefore his Seed […] known by both those signs,