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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Chapter 45: Another excuse for sins of Omission (which is a cause of them) that they would be unsea…
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.
2. I answer, that some positive Duties are never unseasonable. To honour our God, to work out our Salvation, to keep a good Conscience, to love and believe in our Lord Jesus Christ, are always in season. These, and such like, ⟨p. 451⟩ought to be concomitant with every part of our time. Trust in the Lord at all time, Psal. 62.8. I will bless thy Name all the day. Blessed are they that keep Judgment, and do Righteousness at all times, Psal. 106.3. Therefore it is as some observe, that when Solomon mentions a time for several things, he mentions no time for doing evil, because that must never be done; and no time for doing good, because that must ever be done. That which ought to have no being, should have no time to be in. That which ought always to be, needs not the mention of any particular time to be in.
2. I answer, that some positive Duties are never unseasonable. To honour our God, to work out our Salvation, to keep a good Conscience, to love and believe in our Lord Jesus Christ, are always in season. These, and such like, ⟨p. 451⟩ought to be concommitant with every part of our time. Trust in the Lord at all time, Psal. 62.8. I will bless thy Name all the day. Blessed are they that keep Judgment, and do Righteousness at all times, Psal. 106.3. Therefore it is as some observe, that when Solomon mentions a time for several things, he mentions no time for doing evil, because that must never be done; and no time for doing good, because that must ever be done. That which ought to have no being, should have no time to be in. That which ought always to be, needs not the mention of any particular time to be in.