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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 42: Another cause of sins of Omission. Ignorance, with the cure of it; labouring after know…
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Ignorant women were laden with divers lusts. No soil fuller of such weeds, than that which is not manured with knowledge. St. Paul's ignorance was the ground of his wasting the Church at such a cruel rate. I was a Blasphemer, a Persecutor, injurious, but I did it ignorantly, 1 Tim. 1.13. That Monster Sin, which the Sun hid his head as ashamed to behold the Murder of our Lord Jesus Christ, had ignorance for its Mother: Acts 3.15. Ye killed the Prince of Life, vers. 17. And now Brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your Rulers. So the Apostle Paul, Had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory. Now if ignorance be the cause of such grievous Commissions, it must much more be the cause of Omission; for in all these Commissions there are great Omissions: but I shall show particularly that Ignorance is one cause of sins of Omission.
Ignorant women were laden with divers lusts. No soil fuller of such weeds, than that which is not manured with knowledge. St. Paul's ignorance was the ground of his wasting the Church at such a cruel rate. I was a Blasphemer, a Persecutor, injurious, but I did it ignorantly, 1 Tim. 1.13. That Monster Sin, which the Sun hid his head as ashamed to behold the Murther of our Lord Jesus Christ, had ignorance for its Mother: Acts 3.15. Ye killed the Prince of Life, vers. 17. And now Brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your Rulers. So the Apostle Paul, Had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory. Now if ignorance be the cause of such grieveous Commissions, it must much more be the cause of Omission; for in all these Commissions there are great Omissions: but I shall shew particularly that Ignorance is one cause of sins of Omission.
We are bound to love God, and that with all our Hearts, and with all our Souls,