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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.
1. There is the essential presence of God, as he is infinite in his Being, included in no place, and excluded out of none, so none can depart from him, Psal. 139.6. to 10. Jer. 23.24. Amos 9.2, 3.
2. There is the favourable presence of God, as he is the Fountain of Life and Love, and the Father of Mercy, and kindness, and all good. The former is the presence of his Being, this of his Bounty. This is as the presence of the Sun by his heat cheering, and by his light delighting the Creature. His presence in this sense is the substance of his Promises; Fear not, I will be with thee, Isa. 43.2, 3, 5. Jer. 1.8. Jer. 15.20. ⟨p. 22⟩Luk. 1.28. Act. 18.10. His presence in this sense is the Redeemers purchase: He suffered, the Just for the Unjust, to bring us to God, 1 Pet. 3.18. Thence the Name of the Redeemer is Immanuel, God with us, Matth. 1.23. Against his departure in this sense, Jer. 14.8. is the Churches earnest Prayer, Leave us not. And the fear of it doth so affect Moses, that he is ready to throw up all,