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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.
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.
Prisoner. Lord, if I must go, and thy Curse with me, send me to some good place, where I may find somewhat to refresh me under thy loss and curse. It's misery enough to lose thy presence, Good Lord, command me to some good place.
Judge. No, Sinner, be gone with my Curse to that place which will torture and rack thee with extremity and universality of pains. The time hath been that thou hast wallowed in sensual Pleasures, now thou must fry in intolerable flames. Depart thou cursed into fire.
Judge. No, Sinner, be gone with my Curse to that place which will torture and rack thee with extremity and universality of pains. The time hath been that thou hast wallowed in sensual Pleasures, now thou must fry in intollerable flames. Depart thou cursed into fire.
Prisoner. Ah Lord, if I must go with thy Curse, and to so woeful a place as fire, I beseech thee, let me not stay there long. Alas, who can abide devouring flames one moment? material fires of mans kindling are terrible, but how intolerable are those flames which thy breath, like a stream of brimstone, hath kindled? I beseech thee, if I must go to it, let me pass swiftly through it, and not stay in it.
Prisoner. Ah Lord, if I must go with thy Curse, and to so woful a place as fire, I beseech thee, let me not stay there long. Alas, who can abide devouring flames one moment? material fires of mans kindling are terrible, but how intollerable are those flames which thy breath, like a stream of brimstone, hath kindled? I beseech thee, if I must go to it, let me pass swiftly through it, and not stay in it.