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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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4. I answer, that Omissions are not little sins. I have already largely proved, that in some respects, and as they may be circumstantiated, they may be much greater sins than sins of Commission. Reader, consider what is written in the danger of sins of Omission before the Uses, and then judge whether they are little sins or no.
Are they little sins which do most oppose the Mind and Will of God, which make way for whole herds of Sins of Commission, and which do exceedingly grieve the good Spirit of God? Are those little sins which God complains of so frequently, threateneth so severely, ⟨p. 240⟩and punisheth with such dreadful Judgments; on their Bodies, on their Souls, in this World, on both eternally, in the other World without any remedy? But, Friend, consider farther;
Are they little sins which do most oppose the Mind and Will of God, which make way for whole herds of Sins of Commission, and which do exceedingly grieve the good Spirit of God? Are those little sins which God complains of so frequently, threatneth so severely, ⟨p. 240⟩and punisheth with such dreadful Judgments; on their Bodies, on their Souls, in this World, on both eternally, in the other World without any remedy? But, Friend, consider farther;
1. Can that sin be little which denieth God the highest Honour, and greatest Homage, and chiefest Respect which the Creature oweth to him? What is that which is the choicest Jewel in the Crown of his Glory? whence do the greatest Revenues of his Honour flow? Are not our highest esteem, our hottest love, or strongest trust, and our most reverential awe of his sacred Majesty, the best and the most we can give him; and can the omission of these be a little sin? The forbearance of Commissions is but the skirt, and garment, and out-side of that Obedience which we owe to God; it is the giving up our hearts and souls to him, in our most enlarged desires after him, and spiritual delights in him, and superlative valuation of him, which he requireth of us, and principally looks after,