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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.
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.
But it may be Objected, Who can depart from him who is every where? Christ is God, Joh. 1.1. 1 Joh. 5.20. And God is Omnipresent; Whither shall I fly from thy presence? Psal. 139.7. Therefore we must know there is a three-fold presence of God or Christ: