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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…
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. If they were little, yet they are Sins, and that enough to set a good man against them. It's as much Treason to Coin a penny, as a twenty shillings piece; because the Royal Authority is as much violated in the one as in the other. There is the same rotundity in a little Ball or Bullet, as in a great one. The Authority of God is as truly despised in the breach of the least Commandments, as some are called, as in the breach of the greatest, as others are called, Matth. 22.36, 37. A sprig of Wormwood hath the same bitterness with the Plant. A drop of Sea-water hath the same saltness with the Ocean. The smallest Sin is a breach of the Royal Law as well as the greatest, 1 Joh. 3.4. Though the Object may be different, yet the Command is still the same. And the wise man tells us, That the Law must be kept as the apple of the Eye, which is offended by the smallest dust, Prov. 7.2. The brats of Babylon must be dashed against the Wall, as the strongest men must be destroyed.
1. If they were little, yet they are Sins, and that enough to set a good man against them. It's as much Treason to Coin a peny, as a twenty shillings piece; because the Royal Authority is as much violated in the one as in the other. There is the same rotundity in a little Ball or Bullet, as in a great one. The Authority of God is as truly despised in the breach of the least Commandments, as some are called, as in the breach of the greatest, as others are called, Matth. 22.36, 37. A sprig of Wormwood hath the same bitterness with the Plant. A drop of Sea-water hath the same saltness with the Ocean. The smallest Sin is a breach of the Royal Law as well as the greatest, 1 Joh. 3.4. Though the Object may be different, yet the Command is still the same. And the wise man tells us, That the Law must be kept as the apple of the Eye, which is offended by the smallest dust, Prov. 7.2. The brats of Babylon must be dashed against the Wall, as the strongest men must be destoyed.