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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 Mans folly appears in this, 2that he laughs at, and sports himself in his sin and misery: It is a sport to a fool to do evil, Prov. 10.23. and this sporting and jesting at sin, shows him to be a fool in earnest: Fools use to laugh at the shrewd turns and mischiefs which they do: Sinners are such fools, that they make sin their trade (they do [Greek or Hebrew], and are sin-makers) and make it their recreation too; 'tis their pastime (fools that they are!) to pass away, to spend and lose their time and fouls in sinning: Fools make a mock at sin, Prov. 14.9 when they have cheated others, they laugh at them for fools, though themselves are the verier fools for cheating others: They sport themselves in their own deceivings, 2 Pet. 2.13. yea, though they know that they who do such things are liable to the judgment of God, yet not only ⟨p. 50⟩do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them, Rom. 1.32. But they are fools for so doing; for v. 22. professing themselves to be wise, they became fools; and v. 31. they were without understanding: But oh! when God shall laugh and mock at these mockers, the•• 'twill appear what fools they were, who sported at that which should have been their greatest sorrow and grief!
2 Mans folly appears in this, 2that he laughs at, and sports himself in his sin and misery: It is a sport to a fool to do evil, Prov. 10.23. and this sporting and jesting at sin, shews him to be a fool in earnest: Fools use to laugh at the shrewd turns and mischiefs which they do: Sinners are such fools, that they make sin their trade (they do 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, and are sin-makers) and make it their recreation too; 'tis their pastime (fools that they are!) to passe away, to spend and lose their time and fouls in sinning: Fools make a mock at sin,