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A62053	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.	Swinnock, George, 1627-1673.; Manton, Thomas, 1620-1677.	1675 (1675)	Wing S6281; ESTC R21256	184,210	500

strangers to the Covenant of Promise and aliens from the Commonwealth of Israel and without hope in the World In which words we have their dreadful estate how far they are from any Saviour and so from any hope of Salvation which would not be if their negative holiness were sufficient to make them happy Third Use of Information 3. If Christ will condemn men for sins of Omission at the Great Day then it may inform us of the Justice and Righteousness of Christ It 's said of Christ That he loveth Righteousness and hateth Iniquity Psal 45. And again That he shall judge the world in Righteousness Act. 17.31 Herein it appears 1. Because he spares no Sins He condemneth those that live in Omissions little light sins in the imaginations of men as well as those that live in Commissions He sends to Hell those that do not relieve as well as those that rob his people He poureth out his wrath upon them that do not visit his Members in Prison as well as those that cast them into Prison Those sins that are Peccadilloes in the Worlds eye have felt the heavy weight of his hand The man that gather'd a few sticks was destroy'd with stones Vzzah touch'd the Ark out of kindness but God smote him with death for it Moses for omitting the Circumcision of his Child was like to have lost his life Aarons two Sons Nadab and Abihu neglected as is supposed by Expositors to fetch fire from the Altar to burn their Sacrifices and were destroy'd with fire from Heaven Levit. 10. The impartiality of Christ is evident herein that at the Great Day he will bid the Civil as well as the Scandalous Sinner depart from him into everlasting fire 2. Because he spareth no Sinners He saith to all those on his left hand whether Rich or Poor Great or Small High or Low if guilty of these Omissions Depart from me into everlasting fire He is no respecter of persons he spareth none for their greatness and strength His hand reacheth the tallest Cedars and plucks up the strongest Oaks Neither Power nor Majesty can free or exempt persons from his severity If Princes and Potentates will omit their Duty they must expect to feel his Fury Pharaoh Jeroboam Ahab Ahaz Rev. 6.15 Nebuchadnezzar Herod might neglect their Duties to men and escape punishment from men but could not neglect their Duties to God at so easie a rate As all their sins were within the view of his Omniscience so all their persons were within the reach of his Vengeance and that found them out to their cost He spareth none for their nearness to him He beholdeth them afar off that are very near to him when they make bold with him Judges on Earth may sometimes though sinfully always favour their Kindred in an unrighteous cause but he judgeth otherwise Though Coniah be to be as the signet on my right hand I will pluck him thence Jer. 22.24 Israel was the nearest people to God of any people in the world Psal 148. ult with Deut. 4.7 and Moses was the nearest to God of any of the people of Israel yet they were excluded his Rest for not believing his Word and he was denied entrance into Canaan for not sanctifying Gods Name 3. He judgeth all according to Law This is another requisite to suffice He will not condemn any for their Omissions or Commissions but according to Law We count that Judge just indeed that keeps the Law and will not upon any account swerve from that Our Lord Jesus when he sentenceth those that neglect to feed the Hungry and cloath the Naked c. to everlasting fire proceedeth according to Law exactly These persons as hath been before proved are under the Law of Works and so must stand or fall for ever as they obey or disobey that Law Now that Law condemneth for Omissions and not doing our Duties as well as for Commissions and abounding in enormities It saith Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things written in the Book of the Law to do them Gal. 3.13 Observe the Law curseth those that omit that continue not to do their Duties as well as those that do the contrary 4. He will render to every man according to his Works He may punish and doth in this World less but neither in the other nor in this more than our Inquities deserve All mens sins are not equal therefore all mens sufferings shall not be equal According to the degree of mens defilements such shall be the degree of their punishment He distinguisheth between sins and sins between them that afflict his Children and those that relieve them not in their Afflictions between those that hale them to Prisons and put them to death and those that visit them not in prison He exacteth not of men more than is meet He will put a difference between Heathens who have little means to know and worship him aright and Jews To whom were committed the Oracles of God to whom pertained the Adoption and the Covenant and the giving of the Law and the Promises These have greater Means and Mercies and therefore greater Wrath and Severity Tribulation and Anguish Indignation and Wrath on the soul of every man that doth evil on the Jew first and also on the Gentiles Rom. 3.2 Rom. 9.4 Rom. 2.7 You only have I known therefore you will I punish of all the Families of the Earth for your Iniquities Amos 3.2 He will distinguish between Jews and Christians that live under the Gospel Omissions are more tollerable and less punishable among Heathens than Jews and among Jews before Christs coming than those Jews that lived under the Gospel and saw Christ's Miracles and heard his Sermons with those Christians that enjoy the Gospel Matth. 11.21 22 23. It will be more tollerable for Tyre and Sidon than for Corazin and Bethsaida and for Sodom and Gomorrah than for Capernaum because these lived under greater Light and Helps and yet continued in the neglect of Faith and Repentance He will not punish those that omit their Duties ignorantly when they are diligent to improve what advantages they have for knowledge so severely as he will those who neglect their Duties knowingly God expects a life answerable to that Light which he hath given us and if we imprison his Truth in unrighteousness we provoke him in the highest degree He that knoweth his Masters Will and doth it not shall be beaten with many stripes He that knoweth not his Masters will and doth it not shall be beaten with few stripes Both shall be beaten but the former suffer more stripes than the latter It 's cold comfort yet herein the Righteousness of the Judge appeareth that some who are guilty of Omissions shall have a cooler Hell than others For he rendreth to every man according to his Works Rom. 2. CHAP. XXVIII Practical godliness necessary Fourth Use of Information 4. IF Christ will condemn men at the Great Day for Sins of

them for ever to make them more worth than both Worlds If upon a faithful trial they found things well it would rejoyce their hearts encourage them in ways of holiness and confirm them against Satans Temptations to dispair But men generally neglect their Examinations till God comes to examine them as the Rulers commanded Paul to be examined with scourgings and scorpions They presume all is well hope the best and would be sorry any should question their estates and thus persist in their self-deceits till they come to appear before God that the gate of Mercy be shut and the golden Scepter of Grace be wholly withdrawn and their estates become as desperate as the estates of the Devils To urge this Use a little Reader consider these two particulars 1. Consider of what weight it is and how much depends upon this question Am I of the number of them that shall be condemned for sins of Omission or not Or am I guilty of Omissions so as to be banished the presence of Christ for them or not I tell thee thy eternal Joy or Sorrow Happiness or Misery Pleasure or Pain depends on it Do but read and consider and then say whether it be not of infinite weight Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for you before the foundation of the World For I was hungry and ye gave me meat thirsty and ye gave me drink c. On the other side Go ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels For I was hungry and ye gave me no meat thirsty and ye gave me no drink c. Friend are not these weighty things that depend on the performance or neglect of these positive Precepts Come ye blessed of my Father Is not a coming close near intimate familiar into his very bosom and dearest embraces to Christ a weighty thing To come to Christ here is so weighty that he came to men into this World to call them to him Matth. 11.28 Matth. 9.13 But to come to Christ there in all his Robes and Riches and Royalty in all his Beauty and Glory and Magnificence will questionless be of more concern to the Soul On the contrary Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels Is there not weight Reader in these words Dost thou know what it is to bid Christ farewel farewel for ever to take an eternal leave of all good Canst thou bear the extremity of our Culinary fires for a day Canst thou dwell in everlasting burnings or abide unquenchable flames Thou seest all this depends upon thy performing or neglect of the Divine positive Precepts Doth it not concern thee in a matter of such weight to be faithful in the trial of thy self Friend are Life and Death are eternal Life and eternal Death indifferent things or things of small moment Are an eternal enjoyment of God or an endless separation from God mean or trivial things Oh how infinitely do they exceed and over-ballance thy understanding How short must thou of necessity come of conceiving of these things according to their weight Alas Friend what pitiful toys and trifles are Houses and Lands and Friends and Relations and Honors and Preferments I and Liberty and this temporal Life to an eternal happy Life 2. Consider all are guilty of Omissions even the Good as well as the Bad and therefore the more faithfulness and prudence and caution is requisite lest we mistake If Saints and Sinners are both guilty of Omissions how shall I know whether my Omissions are such as will consist with Salvation unless I try and examine my self The good man being guilty of Omissions may fear the dreadful Sentence of Go ye cursed c. And the wicked man knowing that the best are guilty of many Omissions as well as he may presume upon the joyful Sentence Come thou blessed of my Father c. How shall each be rectified in his mistake and satisfied in the truth but by an impartial and through examination of himself God hath given us a Test which is the word of Truth Eph. 1.13 whereby we may try our selves and prevent all mistakes Where there is a possibility of a mistake in a business of such infinite weight there is sufficient ground for a serious trial but where there is so great a probability of mistaking as a thing that is so easie and ordinary because all men are guilty too much of Omissions there is a necessity of a faithful and impartial trial There is that maketh himself rich in Temporals he is worth thousands in Spirituals he is rich towards God and worth millions yet hath nothing Orig. yet nothing in him or to him he is nothing he hath nothing for all his brags there is that makes himself poor speaks himself poor would have others think him poor yet hath great riches Hebr. yet much substance the man hath a great Estate but is willing to conceal it Merchants who are worth thousands do not publish or boast of their Wares or Wealth about the City those poor Creatures do it who carry all their worth on their Heads or in their Arms. Junius reads the words well Est qui divitem se jactat quum desint omnia item qui pauperem se fingit cui substantia ampla There is that boasts himself rich to whom all things are wanting and that feigns himself poor yet hath large substance There is that boasts and brags himself rich in the fear and favour of God and will tell you of his communion and converses with the Divine Majesty of his love to and delight in the Ways and People and Ordinances of God when all these things are wanting to him he hath nothing at all in reality of any of them There is that fains himself poor that dissembles as it were his estate that is a Beggar as some read the word Poor here in his own account and would have all others judge him so too he is so covetous after more that he over-looks what he hath and so greedy of further attainments that he takes little notice of his present spiritual enjoyments If you will believe him he is a meer Beggar hath not one bit of bread to eat and if his Father in whose house there is bread enough and to spare do not pity and relieve his prodigal Child he shall perish for hunger yet this man hath much substance is a man of worth and wealth indeed He is like a branch mightily laden with fruit and an ear fully laden with corn which the heavier they are laden the more they bow down to the ground A meer titular Christian like an empty Vessel may make a great sound but the full Vessel that contains the precious Liquor is silent I come now to the marks whereby men may know their estates And for that end I shall lay down several Propositions 1. Proposition Those that live in Commissions as well as Omissions must certainly be condemned at the

away Sometimes I confess it may be prudence as circumstances may be when there is a probability of enjoying another season to defer it at present but usually it is best to take the present because future time is uncertain and then it may be said A price was in the hand of a Fool and he wanted an heart 3. That if it be evident that more hurt than good will be done by our present performance of our Duties we forbear and defer them For those Duties that do not bind us ad semper God leaves much to the wisdom of the faithful Christian as to the season of performing them 4. That a certain good at present must be chosen before an uncertain future good though greater than the former If I have a price now in my hands to do my self or Neighbour some good and neglect to improve it but defer it hoping hereafter for an opportunity of doing my self and Neighbour more good this is sinful I doubt not but Felix sinned in putting Paul off till another season though he had intended to hear him afterwards for his own greater profit which he was far enough from because he must know that his own l●●e continuance in his Government and Paul's life were all at the pleasure of another not at his own Reader if thou art upright with God what is said will be sufficient but if out of the deceitfulness of thy heart thy plea be only a pretence for the total omission of thy Duty know assuredly that if thou canst find no season to do God Service he will find no season for thy Salvation CHAP. XLVI A third excuse for sins of Omission It is but one sin with the answer to it 3. A Third excuse which men have for sins of Omission is It is but one Duty I omit and I hope there is no such great danger in that Though I do not read the Word yet I pray though I examine not my own heart yet I read Scripture and mind prayer It is true I give not to the poor but I am painful in my Calling and provident 〈◊〉 my Family as God commandeth me What hurt can there be if some one secret Duty the omission of which cannot be scandalous should never be performed Surely God who knoweth our weak infirm nay wicked and d●praved natures cannot exspect universal Obedience to his positive or negative Commands He understands that Perfection is impossible to the humane nature since the Fall and therefore sent his Son into the World to take away the sins of it To cure the distemper of the brain for it 's a kind of phrensie which makes men argue after this rate consider 1. That there is a vast difference between thy being guilty of many sins and allowing thy self in one sin Grace may consist with the being of many sins in the same subject but not with the liking of one sin As the love of money is the root of all evil so is the love of Sin the root of all the evil that befals the Sinner He who knew he could not hinder the inherency of many sins yet desires and endeavours to prevent the regency of any one Sin Psal 119.132 Order my steps by thy Word and let not any iniquity have dominion over me Oserve not any iniquity 2. Consider that the Omission of one Duty may send thee to Hell as well as the Omission of many Duties One Knife one Sword one Bullet one blow may kill a man as well as a thousand If thou allowest thy self in one Omission thou art a Servant to this one Sin For his Servant thou art whom thou obeyest Rom. 6.16 and so the Devils Slave for he hath thee as fast by this one Chain as by many and consequently an Enemy and Rebel against God and accordingly shalt suffer eternally Thy Soul Friend is the price of every sin and when thou allowest thy self in any one thou dost implicitly though not expresly bargain with the Devil thy Master to sell him thy Soul for the wages of unrighteousness 1 King 21.20 One man in Law may keep possession and keep the right owner out of his Estate One sin may keep possession for Satan and hinder Jesus Christ from his Right I mean from sitting on the Throne and swaying the Scepter of thy Soul Wallowing in one puddle defiles the Body and tumbling in one piece of filthiness defiles the Soul One piece of ward-Land though but a quarter of an Acre makes a man liable to the King and brings in his whole Estate though he be worth thousands per annum Therefore Friend do not say it is but one sin and I may be bold with it but rather it is Sin and so mortal and I may not allow it As Christ gave himself to redeem thee from all iniquity Titus 2.14 So do thou give thy self to him in all manner of Duty How severely have some been punished for one Sin Moses for not sanctifying the Name of God at one time Eli for omitting to reprehend his Children according to their wickedness which was one Sin Aarons Sons for not fetching their fire from the Altar as some judge were struck dead Levit. 10.1 2. If the Righteous be recompenced on the Earth much more the Transgressor and the Sinner Take heed if Saul's sparing one Agag lost him his temporal thy sparing one Sin lose thee not the eternal Kingdom 3. This one Sin will not go alone thou mayst hope when thou hast opened the door for this one Sin to enter that thou canst presently shut and keep out its associates but it is impossible Sins are sociable and ever go in company First one evil Spirit takes possession of the man and then seven more worse than himself As there is a concatenation of Graces where one goeth all the rest follow 2 Pet. 1.5 6 7 8. so there is a concatenation of Sins 2 Tim. 3.2 3 4 5. They are so linkt one in another that as in a Chain the drawing of one link brings with that a second and that a third and that a fourth and all are drawn to the very end of the Chain When Dalilah had enticed and prevailed with Sampson then come the Lords of the Philistines and bind him and put out his eyes and set him to grind at the Mill and to make them sport When one sin by its flatteries hath deceived and possessed thy Soul then come others more potent and lordly to strengthen Satans hold and make way for others Any one sin allowed is a great-bellied Monster who hath a numerous brood in the Womb of it It doth insensibly harden the heart and strongly disposeth it for other Sins as one wedge makes way for another Who could have thought that David's idleness should be accompanied with so great and cursed a crew He who neglects Morning-Prayer is hereby disposed to neglect God in his Calling and to buy and sell and do all without his counsel Consider Friend if thou fall from the top of a