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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.
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.
1. By its extremity, Fire. This is amplified: 1. By their Companions in those flames, The Devil and his Angels. 2. By the Divine Ordination of it for them, Prepared for the Devil and his Angels.
2. By its eternity, Everlasting Fire.
3. Of the reason of this punishment; For I was hungry, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink, vers. 42, 43.
I shall begin with the Sentence, wherein every word speaks Woe and Wrath, Fire and Fury, Death and Damnation; and every syllable speaks the deepest Sorrow and dreadfulest Sufferings. It is like Ezekiel's Roll, written within and without; and within is written Lamentation, Weeping and Woe, Ezek. 2.10. The Lord Chief Justice of the World, the Judge of the Quick and Dead is now in all his Robes and Royalty, with millions of glorious Attendants, in the Glory of his Father, with all his holy Angels, set on the Bench. The poor Prisoner, whose trembling Soul is newly reunited to the loathsome Carcass of his Body, is dragged to the Bar, awaiting and expecting some doleful doom. He is lately come from Hell, to give an account of his Life on Earth, and to receive his Sentence; and loath he is to go back to that place of torments, as knowing that the pain of his Body will