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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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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, Micah 6.8. He hath showed thee, O man, what is good, and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do ⟨p. 441⟩justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God. Surely, if any sin be little, it's that which encroacheth least upon the honour of God, not that which injures so greatly his Royal Prerogative. He that robs his Sovereign of some petty goods, cannot be so great a Transgressor as he who would rob him of his Crown and Kingdom.
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 Revenews 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, Micah 6.8. He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good, and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do ⟨p. 441⟩justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God. Surely, if any sin be little, it's that which incroacheth least upon the honour of God, not that which injures so greatly his Royal Prerogative. He that robs his Soveraign of some petty goods, cannot be so great a Transgressor as he who would rob him of his Crown and Kingdom.