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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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6 Mans folly is apparent in and by this, 6that he is so unteachable; one may better treat with seven men of reason, then with one fool, who is not only ignorant, but conceited and stubborn: Fools despise wisdom and instruction, Prov. 1.7. they scorn to be instructed, they are in love with folly: How long ye simple ones will ye love simplicity? Prov. 1.22. A fool will not hearken to counsel. Prov. 12.15. yea though instruction come from a Father, yet a fool despiseth it, Prov. 15.5. Though you add correction to instruction, yet one reproof entereth more into a wise man, then an hundred stripes into a fool, Prov. 17.10. Yea though you bray a fool in a Mortar, yet will not his foolishness depart from him, Prov. 27.22. Whence is it, that though Christs Messengers labour so much, yet profit so little, but from hence, that sin hath made men fools, and they will not receive instruction. Yet
6 Mans folly is apparent in and by this, 6that he is so unteachable; one may better treat with seven men of reason, then with one fool, who is not only ignorant, but conceited and stubborn: Fools despise wisdome and instruction, Prov. 1.7. they scorn to be instructed, they are in love with folly: How long ye simple ones will ye love simplicity? Prov. 1.22. A fool will not hearken to counsel. Prov. 12.15. yea though instruction come from a Father, yet a fool despiseth it,