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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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Again, Our Duty is to repent even pain of eternal perdition, Luke 13.3. Matth. 11.22, 23. But ignorance causeth men to omit this as well as the other. Where there is a veil upon the Understanding, there is ever a caul upon the Heart and Conscience. As in the night season, we have always the hardest Frosts and the coldest weather. Therefore the Holy Ghost tells us, when Israel shall repent and turn to the Lord, The veil shall be taken away, 2 Cor. 3.16, 17. While the veil remains, they are still turning more and more from God, till wrath come upon them to the uttermost; but when the Veil shall be taken away, that they shall see the evil, and mischief, and loathsomeness, and folly of those ways they have turned to; and also for the beauty, and amiableness, and bounty, and kindness of that God they have turned from, then they will quickly return unto the Lord. Indeed, men may thank their Ignorance for most of their Omissions, especially the Heathen, and many Christians who live in dark ⟨p. 391⟩corners of the Land. I, and many who are as void and empty of Knowledge, as the Heathen who live under the Gospel. Many of these neglect Family-Duties, Closet-Prayer, a strict Sanctification of the Lords-Day, edifying others to their power as opportunity is offered them, and several others, because they do not understand them to be their Duty.
Again, Our Duty is to repent even pain of eternal perdition, Luke 13.3. Matth. 11.22, 23. But ignorance causeth men to omit this as well as the other. Where there is a vail upon the Understanding, there is ever a caul upon the Heart and Conscience. As in the night season, we have always the hardest Frosts and the coldest weather. Therefore the Holy Ghost tells us, when Israel shall repent and turn to the Lord, The vail shall be taken away, 2 Cor. 3.16, 17. While the vail remains, they are still turning more and more from God, till wrath come upon them to the uttermost; but when the Vail shall be taken away, that they shall see the evil, and mischief, and loathsomeness, and folly of those ways they have turned to; and also for the beauty, and amiableness, and bounty, and kindness of that God they have turned from, then they will quickly return unto the Lord. Indeed, men may thank their Ignorance for most of their Omissions, especially the Heathen, and many Christians who live in dark