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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.
CHAP. VI. Uses concerning the heinous nature of Sin, and grievous misery of Sinners.
CHAP. VI. Ʋses concerning the hainous nature of Sin, and grievous misery of Sinners.
Use. I Shall now apply this Doctrine. It may be useful by way of Information, and by way of Exhortation: 1. By way of Information.
Ʋse. I Shall now apply this Doctrine. It may be useful by way of Information, and by way of Exhortation: 1. By way of Information.
1. It may inform us. If the Wicked in the other World shall be banished the presence of Christ, then how heinous is the nature of Sin, and how odious to God? God is love it self, and delights in Mercy; yea, takes pleasure in the Prosperity of men; Joh. 1.4. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. Micah 7.18. Who is a God like unto thee, who pardoneth Iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the Remnant of his Heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. Therefore it must be some grievous Crime, and somewhat which is very offensive to him, that provokes him to sentence them to an eternal banishment from him. O how horrid a thing is Sin? It brings all evil, Rom. 2.7, 8. And deprives of all good,