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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 repeated and reiterated, are much greater than sins once committed: Hereby the habit of Sin is strengthened; frequent acts root the habits. Hereby the long-suffering of God is abused; for the more patient he is, the more he is provoked, Rom. 2.4. As in Numbers, one in the first place stands but for a single one, in the second place ten, in the third place for an hundred, the fourth place for a thousand; so here, each Repetition is a great aggravation; Prov. 29.1. He that being often reproved, hardeneth his heart, shall be (see the grievousness of his punishment, not afflicted, but) destroyed ⟨p. 418⟩(the quickness of it) speedily, (and the irrecoverableness of it) and that without remedy. It's one thing to fall into the water, another thing to lie there; 'tis the latter that drowns men.
Sins repeated and reiterated, are much greater than sins once committed: Hereby the habit of Sin is strengthened; frequent acts root the habits. Hereby the long-suffering of God is abused; for the more patient he is, the more he is provoked, Rom. 2.4. As in Numbers, one in the first place stands but for a single one, in the second place ten, in the third place for an hundred, the fourth place for a thousand; so here, each Repetition is a great aggravation; Prov. 29.1. He that being often reproved, hardneth his heart, shall be (see the grievousness of his punishment, not afflicted, but) destroyed ⟨p. 418⟩(the quickness of it) speedily, (and the irrecoverableness of it) and that without remedy. It's one thing to fall into the water, another thing to lie there; 'tis the latter that drowns men.