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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 3: Concerning the privative part of the Sinners Punishment.
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.
CHAP. III. Concerning the privative part of the Sinners Punishment.
This part of the Verse will afford this Doctrine.
THis part of the Verse will afford this Doctrine.
Doct. That a great part of wicked mens punishment in the other World, will consist in their departure from the presence of Christ; Then shall he say to them on his left hand, Depart from me. They now bid God depart from them, They say unto God, Depart from us, Job 21.14. But that which is their wish here, shall be their woe for ever. And he shall say unto them, depart from me ye workers of Iniquity, I know you not, Matth. 7.23. The presence of Christ is now their Trouble, but his absence will then be their Torment. Hence the state of the wicked in the other World is called utter-darkness, 1Matth. 8.12. And blackness of darkness for ever, Jude, vers. 13. Because of its separation from Christ, who is the Light of the World, and the Sun of Righteousness, Joh. 1.9. ⟨p. 25⟩Mal. 4.2. It seems an allusion to them that are fettered in dark doleful dungeons, or to those that in the night-time stand without in the dark, being excluded such Rooms as are full of Lights, wherein are rare and costly Feasts.