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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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As man thinks he often speaks quicquid in buccam, foolishly, idly, proudly, &c. and as he speaks he acts; out of the abundance or fullness of the heart the mouth speaketh, and out of the heart are all the issues of life: All the follies of his life are but the untying and letting loose of that folly which is bound and bundled up in his heart, they are there in gross, and are retailed out (as he meets with customers, occasions and opportunities) in the course of his life and conversation.
As man thinks he often speaks quicquid in buccam, foolishly, idly, proudly, &c. and as he speaks he acts; out of the abundance or fulness of the heart the mouth speaketh, and out of the heart are all the issues of life: All the follies of his life are but the untying and letting loose of that folly which is bound and bundled up in his heart, they are there in gross, and are retail'd out (as he meets with customers, occasions and opportunities) in the course of his life and conversation.
Let us view some instances (and but some) of mans folly; which appears
1 In mans being so heady, 1hasty and rash in his undertakings: There is nothing more becoming a man then deliberation and consideration, it being his preeminence above the beasts; beasts do act, but consider not: And herein is a great part of mans foolishness, that he considers not the end of his actions: Oh that they were wise and would consider their end, Deut. 32.28, 29. People often say, I never thought of this, and (insipientis est dicere non putarem) 'tis the property of a fool to say, I had not thought of this, which it may be most concerned him to think upon: