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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.
Judge. No, Sinner, thy Company must be such for ever as thou didst choose in thy life time. He who was thy Tempter, shall be thy Tormentor. And they who led thee captive at their will, shall be bound with thee in Chains of everlasting darkness, and faggotted up with thee together for unquenchable fire. Such fiery Serpents, gnawing Worms, stinging Adders, poisonous Toads, roaring and devouring Lions, hideous Monsters, frightful Fiends must be thy eternal Companions. Depart from me thou cursed, into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels.
I shall now speak particularly to the punishment of these wicked ones, and explain the words as I come to speak to them.
1I begin with the beginning of Christ's Sentence, viz. The pain of loss, which shall be the punishment of the damned; Depart from me. The word depart is a metaphor which describes the course of humane loss by a Journey, Luk. 1.6. 2 Pet. 2.10. And also their progress to ⟨p. 21⟩death, Luk. 13. The eternal death of the damned will consist partly, if not principally in their departure from the Lord of Life.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew], Est Metaphora qua vita humana cursus per iter sive prosectionem describitur.〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Est Metaphora qua vita humana cursus per iter sive prosectionem describitur.