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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 46: A third excuse for sins of Omission. It is but one sin, with the answer to it.
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. Consider, that the Omission of one Duty may send thee to Hell, as well as the Omission of many Duties. One Knife, one Sword, one Bullet, one blow may kill a man as well as a thousand. If thou allowest thy self in one Omission, thou art a Servant to this one Sin, (For his Servant thou art whom thou obeyest, ⟨p. 458⟩Rom. 6.16.) and so the Devils Slave, (for he hath thee as fast by this one Chain, as by many,) and consequently an Enemy and Rebel against God, and accordingly shalt suffer eternally. Thy Soul, Friend, is the price of every sin, and when thou allowest thy self in any one, thou dost implicitly, though not expressly, bargain with the Devil thy Master, to sell him thy Soul for the wages of unrighteousness, 1 King. 21.20. One man in Law may keep possession, and keep the right owner out of his Estate. One sin may keep possession for Satan, and hinder Jesus Christ from his Right; I mean from sitting on the Throne, and swaying the Sceptre of thy Soul. Wallowing in one puddle defiles the Body, and tumbling in one piece of filthiness defiles the Soul. One piece of ward-Land, though but a quarter of an Acre, makes a man liable to the King, and brings in his whole Estate, though he be worth thousands per annum. Therefore, Friend, do not say, it is but one sin, and I may be bold with it; but rather, it is Sin, and so mortal, and I may not allow it. As Christ gave himself ⟨p. 459⟩to redeem thee from all iniquity, Titus 2.14. So do thou give thy self to him in all manner of Duty. How severely have some been punished for one Sin. Moses, for not sanctifying the Name of God at one time. Eli, for omitting to reprehend his Children, according to their wickedness, which was one Sin. Aaron's Sons, for not fetching their fire from the Altar (as some judge) were struck dead, Levit. 10.1, 2. If the Righteous be recompensed on the Earth, much more the Transgressor and the Sinner. Take heed, if Saul's sparing one Agag, lost him his temporal, thy sparing one Sin, lose thee not the eternal Kingdom.