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Sin, the Plague of Plagues
Sin, the plague of plagues, or, Sinful sin the worst of evils a treatise of sins trial and arraignment, wherein sin is accused for being, proved to be, and condemned for being exceeding sinful : and that 1. as against God, his nature, attributes, works, will, law, image, people, glory and existence, 2. as against man, his good and welfare of body and soul, in this life, and that to come : with the use and improvement to be made of this doctrine, that men may not be damned, but saved, &c. : being the substance of many sermons preached many years ago in Southwark / by Ralph Venning ...Sin, the plague of plagues, or, Sinful sin the worst of evils a treatise of sins tryal and arraignment, wherein sin is accused for being, proved to be, and condemned for being exceeding sinful : and that 1. as against God, his nature, attributes, works, will, law, image, people, glory and existence, 2. as against man, his good and welfare of body and soul, in this life, and that to come : with the use and improvement to be made of this doctrine, that men may not be damned, but saved, &c. : being the substance of many sermons preached many years ago in Southwark / by Ralph Venning ...
London: printed for John Hancock, 1669
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SIN, THE PLAGUE of PLAGUES; OR Sinful Sin the worst of Evils. › 2 In a Moral sense, for
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Sin hath made men worship either 1 A false God, and that's Idolatry: Or, 2 God falsely, and that's Superstition.
Sin hath made men worship either 1 A false God, and that's Idolatry: Or, 2 God falsly, and that's Superstition.
Man is become such a fool, 1that his worship (till enlightened and converted) is either a breach of the first or second Commandment, and he fails as to the object or manner of worship, and both speak mans folly, that his Religion is either Idolatry or Superstition.
Man is become such a fool, 1that his worship (till enlightned and converted) is either a breach of the first or second Commandment, and he fails as to the object or manner of worship, and both speak mans folly, that his Religion is either Idolatry or Superstition.
- 1In being 1 Idolatious.
1 Idolatry is mans folly, to worship no God, or that which is not a God, but an Idol, is folly; and therefore the Gentiles are called not only Atheists, but a foolish people; and with this the ⟨p. 45⟩Apostle upbraids them, Gal. 4.8.