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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
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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. It is spiritual. It is a loss peculiar to the Soul or Spirit of Man, and a loss of that good that is most suitable to the Soul or Spirit of Man. No mercies are like Soul-mercies, Ephes. 1.3. and Job 6.4. No miseries are like Soul-miseries. For the nobler any Being is, the better that is which advantageth it, and the worse that is that injureth it. It's one thing to relieve or abuse a distressed Prince, and another thing to relieve or abuse a distressed Subject. The Soul of man is the Prince, the chief and noblest part of man, and it is principally the subject (as chiefly sensible) of this departure. ⟨p. 31⟩It's true, the Soul cannot depart from God locally, but it can and doth morally here, in its affections and conversation; But that which is now its practice and pleasure, will then be their torment and punishment. Other losses pinch the Flesh, but this pierceth the Spirit. Other losses are castigatory, and the portion of Children; but this is damnatory, and the portion of Devils. Ah how will the Soul pine and wither away, when it shall take its farewell of that Sun, who alone could revive and refresh it? What a dismal, doleful death must it undergo, when it shall depart from him, who is its only Life? Such a wounded Spirit who can bear? The Soul hath more exquisite sense, and more curious feeling than the Body; therefore its loss of its own peculiar suitable satisfying good will cut deep, and fill it with bitter horror.
1. It is spiritual. It is a loss peculiar to the Soul or Spirit of Man, and a loss of that good that is most suitable to the Soul or Spirit of Man. No mercies are like Soul-mercies, Ephes. 1.3. and Job 6.4. No miseries are like Soul-miseries. For the nobler any Being is, the better that is which advantageth it, and the worse that is that injureth it. It's one thing to relieve or abuse a distressed Prince, and another thing to relieve or abuse a distressed Subject. The Soul of man is the Prince, the chief and noblest part of man, and it is principally the subject (as chiefly sensible) of this departure. ⟨p. 31⟩