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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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3. The least sin is damnable. The smallest bit of sin is a murdering morsel, Deut. 27.26. Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this Law to do them. To eat a little Leaven seems a small thing, yet it's a cutting off from Israel, Exod. 12.19. Gathering a few sticks on a Sabbath, looking into the Ark; nay, ⟨p. 430⟩touching the Ark, are all punished with death.
3. The least sin is damnable. The smallest bit of sin is a murthering morsel, Deut. 27.26. Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this Law to do them. To eat a little Leaven seems a small thing, yet it's a cutting off from Israel, Exod. 12.19. Gathering a few sticks on a Sabbath, looking into the Ark; nay, ⟨p. 430⟩touching the Ark, are all punished with death.
It's observable how God urgeth the Command to abstain from blood (which seems a small matter) with this argument; as they desire God to do any good for them or theirs, Deut. 12.22, 23, 24. and upon pain of death. Friend, a little thing, a prick of a thorn festering, the kernel of a Raisin, a small bone in thy Throat may deprive thee of thy natural life; and these little sins, as thou callest them, may hinder thee of eternal life. A small leak in a Ship unstopped, may sink it. A dram of poison diffuseth it self to all parts, till it seize and strangle the vital Spirits. A Pen-knife will stab mortally, and kill a man as surely as a Sword. A Pistol will kill as dead as a Cannon. Caesar was slain, as some report, with Bodkins. There are other Diseases mortal beside the Plague. Some have been eaten up by Bears and Lions, others by Mice and Lice. It's spiritual Murder to stifle and suppress the Conceptions of the Spirit in thy Soul, as well as to do open despite to the Holy Ghost.