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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

voluntary departure from Gods Precepts Heb. 3.12 Jer. 2.5 And its woful Effect is an eternal total departure from his gracious presence His partial temporary departure from his own people who are the Objects of his eternal Choice and infinite Love which makes them go mourning all the day and lie roaring all the night because of their sins speaks much of the evil of sin but his full everlasting departure from others which leaves them naked and stript of all Comfort and exposed to all Misery and Mischief doth more abundantly proclaim its filthiness and loathsomeness It can be no ordinary Cloud or Vapour that can obscure the Sun at noon-day in all his beauty and brightness and turn the clear day into a black night And it can be no little or small thing which provokes the Father of Mercy and God of all Grace to deal so severely with the works of his own hands 2. It informs us of the unconceivable misery of Sinners They must depart from Christ for ever To depart for ever from loving and lovely Relations is no mean misery to them who have no other Kindred than those on Earth It was no small trial of Abraham to leave his Kindred and Fathers house Gen. 12.1 To depart for ever from dear and intimate Friends is a sore trouble to him whose heart is knit to them The failure and distance of Friends was grievous to Job Job 19.13 14. And David Psal 38.11 To depart for ever from all the Saints the Children of the most high the excellent of the Earth from the Members of Christ of whom the World is not worthy will cut deep in them who have any eyes to see the amiableness of their Persons and any hearts to underderstand the benefit of their Prayers and Patterns But to depart for ever from Christ the Prince of Life the Lord of Glory the Heir of all things the richest Treasure and highest Honour and sweetest Pleasure is doleful and dreadful indeed How may the damned cry out Ah whither do we go now we are going from thee thou hast the words of eternal life The presence of Christ is the happiness of the Soul on Earth Deut. 4.7 I will see you and your hearts shall rejoyce Joh. 16.22 And ye now therefore have sorrow but I will see you again and your hearts shall rejoyce and your joy no man taketh from you No such hearty comfort as in the gracious presence of Christ And the presence of Christ is the happiness of the Soul in Heaven I desire to be dissolved though death simply consider'd be not desirable and to be with Christ Finis conciliat mediis amorem His presence is the Heaven of Heavens It 's the excellency of the new Jerusalem that there the Tabernacle of God is with men and God himself shall be with them Rev. 21.3 And the felicity of the Citizens there They shall see his Face Rev. 22.4 In the presence of Christ is all good and in the absence of Christ is all evil If it were death to Absolom not to see the Kings face what death will it be to the damned to be denied for ever the blissful sight of the face of Christ If God depart from his people in some degrees for he is their God still Psal 22.1 Psal 88.1 and but for a time as a loving Father to make his Children more sensible of their folly and of the worth of his Favour How sadly have they cried out My God my God why hast thou forsaken me How horribly will they screech and roar from whom he departs wholly and eternally as a supream and righteous Judge It will greatly aggravate their misery to consider these particulars 1. The greatness of their loss It 's not the loss of an House or Estate or bodily good but the loss of a Soul the loss of a Saviour the loss of a God yea the loss of all good and that for ever It 's such a loss as never had its fellow or equal It 's such a loss as cannot admit of any addition to it It 's a loss that never had the like before it nor shall have the like after it It 's an incomparable loss that the damned may say as he Ye have taken away my God and what have I more 2. For how small a thing they lose the blessed Jesus If they had lost Christ for somewhat which might have countervail'd the want of him or had in any degree equal'd him it had been the better but to lose a God a Christ a Soul fulness of Joy for a little aiery Honour or bruitish Pleasure this will cut to the heart O how will it wound the Soul in the other World to think for how small a toy for how pitiful a trifle have I lost a Crown of Glory and Rivers of Pleasures for ever Ah what a Fool have I been to lose Substance for Shadows Bread for Husks a Fountain of living Waters for broken Cisterns their own Mercies for lying Vanities Christal streams for puddle Water the choice Dainties of Gods House for the Devils scraps Heaven for Earth and all things for nothing Was any in Bedlam ever half so distracted 3. It will much aggravate their misery to consider that it was their own voluntary act to lose so much for so little They shall then think with themselves that this woful condition in which they are was their own choice All the power and policy of Earth and Hell could not force them to destroy themselves The Cords that bind them were of their own twisting the Rods that scourge them were gather'd with their own hands The Web in which they are caught and kill'd was spun out of their bowels God may say to them as once to Israel Ye have destroyed your selves Hos 13. Ye are your own Murtherers I put your Salvation so far into your own hands that ye could not be damned against your wills Your own Iniquities correct you and ye are holden with cords of your own sins Prov. 5.22 Jer. 4.18 Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee this is thy wickedness because it is bitter because it reacheth unto thine heart Jer. 2.19 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee and thy back-slidings shall reprove thee know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God 4. It will exceedingly increase their anguish to know perfectly the greatness of their loss Here they know not the worth of a Christ and thence they are little troubled at the want of Christ but then their eyes shall be opened to see the Beauty Excellency and Amiableness of him whom they have lost and to see the costly Delicacies choice Dainties pure and perfect Pleasures which the Godly enjoy in him and with him and so by the increase of their knowledge will be an increase of their sorrow They shall see Abraham Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven they shall see their Neighbours whom they

and negative must be written out by the Magistrate that we might observe it and it was also written in a Book by Moses and put into the Ark as a witness against the Israelites if they should not observe it Deut. 31.24 25 26. Joshua succeeds Moses in his Charge over the Jews and in his Commands to them both affirmatively and negatively Joshua 23.7 Samuel follows after and speaks the same Language Serve the Lord with all your heart fear him and serve him in truth And turn ye not aside for then ye should go after vain things which cannot profit or deliver for they are vain 1 Sam. 12.20 21 24. David doth the like Depart from evil and do good Psal 34.14 Solomon writes after his Fathers Copy in the very qualifications of those whom he intreats Mercy for If they sin and afterwards bethink themselves and turn i. e. from their sins and return unto thee with all the Heart and with all the Soul then hear thou from Heaven from thy Dwelling-place 2 Chron. 6.36 to 40. Isaiah calls on men not only to forsake their evil ways and evil thoughts but also to return unto the Lord Isa 55.7 Jeremiah crieth to his people Not to oppress the Stranger the Fatherless and the Widows and also throughly to execute Judgment between a man and his Neighbour Jer. 7.5 6. So Ezekiel and the rest of the Prophets Ezek. 18.21 Our Saviour in his Exposition of the Law doth forbid what is Evil and command what is Good Matth. 5.43 44. So Matth. 7. per tot The Apostle St. Paul commands Not to be conformed to the World there is the Prohibition but to be transformed by the renewing of our mind proving what is the good and perfect and acceptable will of God there is the Precept Rom. 12.1 2. Again Put off the works of Darkness put on the armour of Light Put off the old man which is corrupt according to his deceitful lusts And put on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness Ephes 4.23 24. Lye not one to another but speak the truth The Apostle St. James tells us Religion consisteth in Negatives and Positives also James 1.21 22 26 27. So St. Peter 1 Pet. 1.14 15. 1 Pet. 2.11 12. St. Joh. 3.9 10. Jude vers 21 22 23. Thus we see through the whole Bible the Mind of God by his Messengers to be Positive as well as Negative and this Mind of his he hath ordained to be the rule of our Hearts and Lives and what shall we answer when we shall be called to an account for our Disobedience To what purpose is a Rule if it be not followed and to what end is the Penalty denounced against the Ungodly if it be not executed This is the Voice of the Law of God and therefore Reader either thou must betake thy self to practical godliness or else disown the Scriptures for thy rule and square Thy Duty must at least in thy desires and endeavours carry some proportion to thy standard and rule or else thy Religion is a meer cypher and signifieth nothing So far as the best come short of the Law they sin 1 Joh. 5.3 Sin is a transgression of the Law And that because the Law is given to him as a rule of Life God hath therefore qualified it with the porperties of a Rule 1. A Rule must be perfect and not defective not redundant The Law of the Lord is perfect Psal 19.7 2. A Rule must be plain not dark All her ways are plain to him that understandeth 3. A Rule must be published and known otherwise it 's a snare to intrap men God hath proclaimed his Law The Command is not hidden from thee nor far off Deut. 30.11 It 's not in Heaven that thou shouldst say Who shall go up for us thither and fetch it thence that we may hear it and do it Nor beyond the Seas But the Word is very nigh unto thee in thy mouth and in thy heart 12 13 14 verses that thou mayst do them 4. A Rule is that by which men shall be judged so is this Law Joh. 12. 48. The Word that I have spoken the same shall judge you at the last day 2. The Mercies of God to thee are positive as well as privative and why should not thy Duty be suitable to the Divine Bounty God is not only a Shield to defend thee from evil in thy Body in thy Soul in thy Person in thy Relations in thine Out-goings and in thine Incomings by Night and by Day at all times and in all places but he is also a Sun to refresh thee with good with temporal good Food Raiment Friends Relations Sleep Liberty Wealth esteem in the World c. With spiritual good with Sabbaths Scriptures Sacraments seasons of Grace with the tenders of Pardon and Peace and Adoption and eternal Salvation upon excellent and equitable terms And what reason can we give why our Obedience should not bear a proportion to his Beneficence He is a Sun and a Shield and gives Grace and Glory and with-holdeth no good things from them that walk uprightly Psal 84. Shall God with-hold no good thing from thee and canst thou find in thy heart to deny the doing of any good thing for him Is his Bounty of so large an extent as to comprehend protection from all Evil and the fruition of all good and must thy Duty be so narrow and scanty as if he did not deserve so much as he requireth Is it honest to receive or buy in by one Measure and to return and sell out by another Divers Weights and divers Measures both of them are abomination to the Lord. A Weight and a Weight a Measure and a Measure one to buy with that 's large another to sell with that is less I only allude to it It 's abominable for thee to receive of God by the largest measure and to return to him by the least Reader if thou art born of God and guilty of these partial temporary Omissions consider it seriously let ingenuity plead for God When he first wrought upon thy Soul he did not only translate thee out of the Kingdom of Darkness but also bring thee into the Kingdom of his dear Son He did not only turn thee from Satan but also cause thee to return to himself He brought thee out of a state of Wrath and brought thee into a state of Love and Favour 1 Pet. 2.9 He redeemed thee from those Enemies which had carried thee Captive Sin Satan Death Hell Rom. 6.11 Ephes 2.3 4. Heb. 2. 2 Tim. 1.9 10. 1 Thess 1. ult But this is not all he hath also brought thee into the glorious liberty of the Children of God 1 Joh. 12. 1 Joh. 3.1 He hath delivered thee from this present evil World that its affrightments its allurements that all its power and policy shall not be able to destroy thee but this is not all he hath made thee an Heir of a better