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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 44: Another cause of Omissions, is vain excuses men have, that Omissions are little sins, w…
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Sins against Knowledge are greater than sins of Ignorance. Our Saviour tells the Jews, That if they had been blind, they had had no sin; but because ye say ye see, therefore your sin remaineth, Joh. 9. Sins against knowledge are sins against our own light, and thereby we offer violence to our selves, Rom. 1.21, to 28.2. More daring to God; for he who is ignorant of his Masters will, cannot do any thing, or omit any thing to dare him or to provoke him, because he doth not know what is displeasing to him; but he who knoweth what God would have, and omits what he commandeth, or doth what he forbids, may rather be supposed to commit the one or omit the other, because of his enmity to God. 3. As more against the mercy of God. Knowledge is a great mercy: The Understanding of Man is the Candle of the Lord. And sins against it are therefore the more provoking, because against the Divine goodness, Joh. 15.4. These sins ⟨p. 417⟩against knowledge make way for the sin against the Holy Ghost, Matth. 12.32. Heb. 6.4, 5, 6. Sins against the Gospel are greater than sins against the Law. Those sins are against the natural Law, the moral, and the Law of Faith, Rom. 3.27. and are committed in the face of the Sun, as they are against the clearest Light, so they are against the sweetest Love, and therefore the more sinful. A Taper in the hand of a Ghost makes it look the more ghastly; This is the condemnation, Joh. 3.19.
Sins against Knowledge are greater than sins of Ignorance. Our Saviour tells the Jews, That if they had been blind, they had had no sin; but because ye say ye see, therefore your sin remaineth, Joh. 9. Sins against knowledge are sins against our own light, and thereby we offer violence to our selves,