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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 41: The grand cause of sins of Omission. An unregenerate heart, with the cure of it; a rene…
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When God intends that his people should walk in his Statutes, keep his Judgments, and do them; what doth he for them to prepare them and enable them thereunto? truly this, he regenerates them, and changeth them, and putteth a new principle into them: I will give them a new Heart, and a new Spirit, Ezek. 36.26. I will cast them in the fire of my Word, and though they are old, tough untoward metal, I will melt them, and soften them, and they shall run into my mould. But how can this be? Nature will still run into its old temper; though it may be a little altered in its form, yet it will still continue the same in substance and matter. No, I will put my spirit into them, and they shall walk in my Commandments, and do them. My Spirit shall renew and quite alter their Spirits, it shall turn the stream of their Hearts from the World and Flesh unto God, and shall be in them a principle of spiritual life and motion, strengthening them to walk in my Statutes, and to keep my Commandments, and do them. The natural Spirit would have served to done natural actions. The ⟨p. 378⟩Spirit of the World would have served for a man to have walked according to the course of the World; but no less than a new Spirit can serve for a new life, and nothing below the Spirit of God can help unto a faithful walking with God.
When God intends that his people should walk in his Statutes, keep his Judgments, and do them; what doth he for them to prepare them and enable them thereunto? truly this, he regenerates them, and changeth them, and putteth a new principle into them: I will give them a new Heart, and a new Spirit, Ezek. 36.26. I will cast them in the fire of my Word, and though they are old, tough untoward metal, I will melt them, and soften them, and they shall run into my mould. But how can this be? Nature will still run into its old temper; though it may be a little alter'd in its form, yet it will still continue the same in substance and matter. No, I will put my spirit into them, and they shall walk in my Commandments, and do them. My Spirit shall renew and quite alter their Spirits, it shall turn the stream of their Hearts from the World and Flesh unto God, and shall be in them a principle of spiritual life and motion, srengthening them to walk in my Statutes, and to keep my Commandments, and do them. The natural Spirit would have served to done natural actions. The