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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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It cannot therefore but be hugely useful and advantageous toward the exciting, exercising, promoting and perfecting of these Graces, to know what an exceeding sinful thing sin is; not only ⟨image 3⟩that we may suffer well, as did Christ Jesus, 1 Pet. 2.19.-23. and make Moses's choice, Hebr. 11.25. and not that which is charged on Job as his, Chap. 36, 21. But also because, if ever we be saved, these Graces must be practised, and that they are not in a capacity to be, till sin appear to us, as it did to S. Paul, an exceeding sinful, deceitful, and destructive thing. And truly, as Sinners are not like to be awakened hereunto, till the Commandment come (as it did to the Apostle) and discover it to them; so they who are awakened and converted, are greatly obliged, and no less provoked by it, to admire the love and mercy of God, and to pay him everlasting gratitudes for their deliverance and salvation from sin. But of the usefulness of this Doctrine I speak in the Treatise it self, and shall therefore forbear to name any thing more of that Nature in this place.
It cannot therefore but be hugely useful and advantageous toward the exciting, exercising, promoting and perfecting of these Graces, to know what an exceeding sinful thing sin is; not only ⟨image 3⟩that we may suffer well, as did Christ Jesus, 1 Pet. 2.19.-23. and make Moses's choice, Hebr. 11.25. and not that which is charg'd on Job as his, Chap. 36, 21. But also because, if ever we be saved, these Graces must be practis'd, and that they are not in a capacity to be, till sin appear to us, as it did to S. Paul, an exceeding sinful, deceitful, and destructive thing. And truly, as Sinners are not like to be awakened hereunto, till the Commandment come (as it did to the Apostle) and discover it to them; so they who are awakened and converted, are greatly obliged, and no less provokt by it, to admire the love and mercy of God, and to pay him everlasting gratitudes for their deliverance and salvation from sin. But of the usefulness of this Doctrine I speak in the Treatise it self, and shall therefore forbear to name any thing more of that Nature in this place.