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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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2 Superstition is mans folly, as to Religion, 2and this is younger brother to Idolatry, 'tis of the same (venture) womb with Idolatry: Superstition is not worshipping a false God, but the true God falsely, in a way that God commandeth not; but it teacheth and practiseth for doctrines the devices and commandments of men; or worships not according to the will of God, but the will of man: This also is called the sacrifice of fools, Eccl. 5.1. They mind the matter more then the manner, and take up with the work done, though it be not well done, and mind the outside more then the in-side; yea, and worship God more because they fear, then because they love him.
2 Superstition is mans folly, as to Religion, 2and this is younger brother to Idolatry, 'tis of the same (venter) womb with Idolatry: Superstition is not worshipping a false God, but the true God falsly, in a way that God commandeth not; but it teacheth and practiseth for doctrines the devices and commandments of men; or worships not according to the will of God, but the will of man: This also is called the sacrifice of fools, Eccl. 5.1. They mind the matter more then the manner, and take up with the work done, though it be not well done, and mind the outside more then the in-side; yea, and worship God more because they fear, then because they love him.
- 2Superstitious.
And this shall briefly suffice for the evincing of mans folly, or how sin hath befooled man as to his end, happiness, and the means to it, Religion. I proceed