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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 43: Another cause of sins of Omission, Idleness, with the cure of it.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
It's easy to forbear cursing, and swearing, and blaspheming the Name of God; these may suit well with a torpid idle person, but to call on the Name of God, to pray fervently, to pray without ceasing, to lift up to the Soul in prayer, to pour out ⟨p. 398⟩the heart, to stir up ones self to wrestle with God, to seek him with all the heart, with the whole heart; this will require some pains and labour, and this makes him forbear it. Again, it's no great pains for a man to keep himself from hearing lascivious, vain, backbiting, or flattering, or evil Language; a man may but forbear coming into such company, or depart from them, when he understandeth them about such wickedness; but for a man to hear the Word of God, with reverence, as the Word of God; with meekness, as willing to be governed by it; with Faith, as believing all the Promises and Threatenings of it to be of unquestionable certainty, and with a resolution to practise it, as knowing we shall be judged by it at the day of Christ; this will cost some head and heart work, which the sleepy Drone is unwilling to come to.
It's easie to forbear cursing, and swearing, and blaspheming the Name of God; these may suit well with a torpid idle person, but to call on the Name of God, to pray fervently, to pray without ceasing, to lift up to the Soul in prayer, to pour out ⟨p. 398⟩the heart, to stir up ones self to wrastle with God, to seek him with all the heart, with the whole heart; this will require some pains and labour, and this makes him forbear it. Again, it's no great pains for a man to keep himself from hearing lascivious, vain, backbiting, or flattering, or evil Language; a man may but forbear coming into such company, or depart from them, when he understandeth them about such wickedness; but for a man to hear the Word of God, with reverence, as the Word of God; with meekness, as willing to be govern'd by it; with Faith, as believing all the Promises and Threatnings of it to be of unquestionable certainty, and with a resolution to practise it, as knowing we shall be judged by it at the day of Christ; this will cost some head and heart work, which the sleepy Drone is unwilling to come to.