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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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7 After some men have received the truth, 7and have gone far in the profession of it, yet they are such fools as to Apostatize, which is no small folly: As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool to his folly, Prov. 26.11. compared with 2 Pet. 2.20, 21. The Word of God works on some men like Physic, it gives them a vomit, makes them confess their sin (which one of the Ancients calls vomitus animae) as if it lay hard ⟨p. 53⟩and heavy on their stomachs, and they were sick of it, but after a while they lick it up again; they repent and sin again, as if they repented of their repentance: On this account the Apostle calls the Galatians fools, Ch. 3.1.-3. O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that you should not obey, i. e. go on to obey the truth, for they had begun to obey; and therefore he adds, are ye so foolish, having begun in the spirit, to think of perfection by the flesh? this is folly with a witness! An Apostate is a double fool, a tree twice dead, and his latter end worse then his beginning. And thus alas! we see how sin hath befooled men! But yet
7 After some men have receiv'd the truth, 7and have gone far in the profession of it, yet they are such fools as to Apostatize, which is no small folly: As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool to his folly, Prov. 26.11. compared with 2 Pet. 2.20, 21. The Word of God works on some men like Physick, it gives them a vomit, makes them confess their sin (which one of the Ancients calls vomitus animae) as if it lay hard ⟨p. 53⟩and heavy on their stomacks, and they were sick of it, but after a while they lick it up again; they repent and sin again, as if they repented of their repentance: On this account the Apostle calls the Galatians fools, Ch. 3.1.-3. O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitcht you, that you should not obey, i. e. go on to obey the truth, for they had begun to obey; and therefore he adds, are ye so foolish, having begun in the spirit, to think of perfection by the flesh? this is folly with a witness! An Apostate is a double fool, a tree twice dead, and his latter end worse then his beginning. And thus alas! we see how sin hath befool'd men! But yet