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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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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. Rom. 1.21.125. Man is such a fool, that he neglects to serve the God that made him, and serves Gods of his own making, though that make proves that they are not as their name is, but Gods (like their knowledge) falsely so called, as 'tis at large imputed to them of old, Is. 44.14.-16. The world hath been guilty of most abominable idolatry; the Romans made diseases Gods, as the Fever, &c. and sinners make not only creatures, as gold and their belly their God, but among the fore-mentioned Romans (theft and murder) sins were reputed and called Gods: yea, the Devil himself hath been made a God, and sacrificed to; he is called the God of this world, 2 Cor. 4.4. and saith the Apostle, they sacrifice to devils, 1 Cor. 10.20. Deut. 32.17. and sacrificed not only their children, Psa. 106.37. but their souls; for in all services the soul is the sacrifice. Oh sinful sin! But yet again;
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. Rom. 1.21.125. Man is such a fool, that he neglects to serve the God that made him, and serves Gods of his own making, though that make proves that they are not as their name is, but Gods (like their knowledge) falsly so called, as 'tis at large imputed to them of old, Is. 44.14.-16. The world hath been guilty of most abominable idolatry; the Romans made diseases Gods, as the Feaver, &c. and sinners make not only creatures, as gold and their belly their God, but among the fore-mentioned Romans (theft and murder) sins were reputed and called Gods: yea, the Devil himself hath been made a God, and sacrificed to; he is called the God of this world,