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

1. The grand Cause of these sins of Omission, is an unregenerate Heart. Where the ground is unploughed, and lieth fallow, no Fruit can be expected; Weeds may grow, good Corn cannot grow there: When the Heart is not broken up by Repentance, but hardened through custom and continuance in sin, no fruits of Righteousness, no Faith, no Love, or Humility, &c. can be expected there. Can the Leopard change his spots, or the Blackamore his skin? no more can he that is accustomed to do evil, learn to do well, Jer. 23.13. Natures Fruit will be according to its Root, ⟨p. 366⟩whether sweet or sour. There must of necessity be a good Foundation laid, before there can be a good Superstructure of Holiness reared. An unrenewed Heart hath no tendency towards it, and Nature will work little farther than its own inclination. The Water will run as the Tide carrieth it. Nay, the unregenerate Heart is contrary to religious Duties, hath an hatred and abhorrency of them, no wonder then if it live in the Omission of them. The Carnal Mind, Lady Reason her self, the chief and principal faculty of man, is enmity against God, It is not subject to the Law of God, neither indeed can be, Rom. 8.7. He who is an enemy to a mans Person, will never be a friend to his Precepts; much less will he who is enmity against Gods Life, be subject to his Law. There is an impossibility hereof, Neither indeed can be. Till the Heart be changed, it will never like the Divine Commands, that are so contrary to its lusts; and till it be brought to love them, it will neglect Obedience to them. When the Will, the great Commander, is set against the Laws of ⟨p. 367⟩God, how can any of the other faculties submit to them? As in fleshly lusts, the titillation is from sense and appetite; but the consent of the reasonable Will, is, that which makes it a vice; so unto good, the inclination may possibly be from example or education, but the royal assent of the Will is that which makes it a virtue. The Devil finds it no hard work to part Sin and his Duty, whose Will never chose it, and whose Heart never loved it; but it will be much easier to part him and his Duty, whose Will and Heart have an enmity and reluctancy against it. If a Lads calling doth not suit his genius, he seldom comes to do any thing well, or to be expert at it; much less when he hates it. The Scholar who loves not his Book, will hardly proceed from the degree of a Dunce;