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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 39: Arguments against sins of Omssion. The new Nature in Believers inclines them to positiv…
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Now, Reader, Consider, either thou art a Believer or not: If thou art not, it concerns thee speedily to look about thee, lest thou die in this estate, and be damned for ever, Joh. 3. ult. If thou art a Believer, it would be very strange for thee to continue in any Omission, for all this while thou actest against thy nature. It's very much easier to sin with thy nature than against it. A wicked man that hath knowledge, cannot sin with such pleasure and easiness as another, because he doth in sinning oppose and fight with Conscience within him; but it seems harder for thee, for thou dost not only offer violence to thine enlightened Conscience, but also to the new Nature that is implanted in thee. By thy Omissions, thou dost not only sin against thy natural Light, but also against thy new spiritual Life. It's hard, we say, for a man to thwart or cross nature, Naturam expellas furca, &c. and wilt thou take such pains to disobey thy ⟨p. 341⟩Gods Precepts? The Devils Servants do his Will, but it is with their own whole Wills, according to their own inclinations; they do not cross themselves to please him. But thou canst not neglect the Will of God, but it must be in part against thine own will, and against thine own inclinations; and wilt thou displease thy self to displease God, and walk contrary to thy self, that thou mayst walk contrary to God. This is the part and guise of the most spiteful, envious, and malicious Enemies, and I am sure it's impossible for thee (if a Believer) to be such an enemy to God. God did purposely endue thee with a new Spirit, that thou mightest live to his praise, Isa. 43.21. This people have I formed for my self, and (new made and moulded them) they shall show forth my praise. Now how is the praise of God spread in the World, but by good Works, Matth. 5.16. Let your light so shine before others, that they seeing your good works, may glorify your heavenly Father, so Joh. 15.8.
Now, Reader, Consider, either thou art a Believer or not: If thou art not, it concerns thee speedily to look about thee, lest thou die in this estate, and be damned for ever,