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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.
Again, the right performance of Duties in regard of the manner, requires much more pains than in regard of the matter; therefore they who take upon them a Form, deny the power of Godliness; ⟨p. 399⟩and who are not guilty of external, are yet of internal Omissions. How many pray or mumble over a few words Morning and Evening to God, (and are pleased with it, as if therefore all were well, and think God pleased too,) who never trouble themselves with minding that reverence, humility, uprightness, sense of want, Faith in Christ, importunity of desires which God expects in every prevalent Prayer; and the reason is, because the former is so easy, and the latter so laborious.
Again, the right performance of Duties in regard of the manner, requires much more pains than in regard of the matter; therefore they who take upon them a Form, deny the power of Godliness; ⟨p. 399⟩and who are not guilty of external, are yet of internal Omissions. How many pray or mumble over a few words Morning and Evening to God, (and are pleased with it, as if therefore all were well, and think God pleased too,) who never trouble themselves with minding that reverence, humility, uprightness, sense of want, Faith in Christ, importunity of desires which God expects in every prevalent Prayer; and the reason is, because the former is so easie, and the latter so laborious.
Besides, for a man to examine his own heart frequently and impartially, and to call himself to a strict account what he hath been and done in the World, and what is like to become of him, and to befall him for ever; for him to take the Looking-Glass of the Law of God, and therein to behold his Heart and Life, and having compared his practices with the Divine Precepts, which are exceeding broad, to accuse, and judge, and condemn, and loath, and abhor himself; for him to lay himself low before the Lord, and to acknowledge and confess with shame, and anger, ⟨p. 400⟩