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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

no more Sermons and joyn in no more Prayers and receive no more tenders of Grace or intreaties of the Gospel Isa 38.11 I said I shall not see the Lord even the Lord in the Land of the living I shall behold man no more with the Inhabitants of the world Where the King is there he hath his Secretaries and Seals and Ministers of State and they who are banished the Court are banished from these 4. They shall depart from all the good things of this Life Each Country hath its proper peculiar Commodities and so hath each World This World hath its peculiar good things such as are proper to this and not to be found in the other World therefore the Apostle calls them this worlds goods He that hath this worlds goods 1 Joh. 3.17 So the other World hath its proper peculiar Commodities such as are to be found no where else The blessings of this are not to be look'd for in the other Life There is neither marrying nor giving in marriage but all are as Angels Good men as good Angels above all bodily and temporal Blessings and evil Men as evil Angels without them and fixed in a state of endless misery The wicked man possibly was honourable but his glory doth not follow after him Psal 49.17 He was rich but that was only in this world 1 Tim. 6.17 He was one that abounded in Pleasures but now they are gone and exchanged for pains James 5.5 Luk. 16.25 But Abraham said Son remember that thou in thy life time receivedst thy good things and likewise Lazarus evil things but now he is comforted and thou art tormented The Sinner shall bid adieu to Temporal good Spiritual good Eternal good all good that he may speak indefinitely what Job supposing himself dying spake restrictively Mine eye shall no more see good Job 7.7 CHAP. IV. The Properties of the Sinners loss Secondly I Shall speak to the Properties of this departure from Christ or loss therein 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 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 farewel 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 horrour 2. It will be a total departure Here they depart in part from God but then totally Here Cain complains if not allowed God's presence in Ordinances though he had his presence in many ways of ordinary Favour Behold thou hast driven me this day from the face of the Earth and from thy face shall I be hid Gen. 4.14 But alas how doth he complain there where he is wholly deprived of the Divine presence in any way of Favour where he hath not the least glimpse of the light of his Countenance The partial departures of God have forced sad Complaints from them that are godly Job 13.24 Why hidest thou thy face and holdest me for thine enemy saith Job I can bear the withdrawings of men and their absence I can bear the strangeness of my Friends and the unkindness of Relations but I cannot bear thy strangeness to me thy with-drawings from me Why hidest thou thy face Job though a strong stout man able to overcome the strong One the Devil yet was ready to faint away and die at this David crieth out mournfully at it Psal 10.1 Why standest thou afar off O Lord why hidest thou thy self in time of trouble Poor Heman is distracted and almost dead with it Psal 88.14 15. Lord why hidest thou thy face I am afflicted and ready to die while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted If these partial departures which had much love in them and with them cast down the Friends of God so heavily O what will his total departures out of pure Wrath cause to his Enemies That world must needs be dolesome and darksome indeed to whom this Sun is wholly set and totally ecclipsed ● It will be an eternal departure They must leave God for ever though it had been spiritual and total yet if but temporal there had been somewhat to have allay'd their Sorrows but to suffer so great a loss and that wholly and for ever too must needs pierce to the quick The Sinner shall see the blessed Jesus no more for ever He must depart from the tenderest Father lovingest Friend richest Treasure choicest Good greatest Glory sweetest Pleasure and that for ever Jude vers 13. To whom is reserved blackness of darkness for ever The Sentence one denounced Depart from me will be like the Law of the Medes and Persians which cannot be altered 2 Thess 1.8 9. Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord. The Anchor of Hope will then be broken the Bridge of Grace will then be drawn the Gate of Mercy will then be shut and the Gulph between Christ and the Wicked never to be passed over They may cry out in truth what the Psalmist in unbelief Will the Lord cast off for ever will he be favourable no more Is is mercy clean gone for ever Psal 77.7 8. Alas they are cast off for ever he will be favourable to them no more They may roar out in vain How long wilt thou forget me O Lord shall I never me remembred Psal 13.1 4. It is an irreparable loss such a loss as nothing can make up There are many good things which we may do well without because the want of them may be supplied by other things But Christ is the one thing necessary the one thing excellent the want of whom no good thing in Heaven or Earth can make up When the Soul departs from Christ it departs from all good because nothing is good without him and nothing can be had in the room of him