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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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This is not all; sin hath degraded man, 1and made him a beast; 'tis true, he hath the shape of a man, but alas! is degenerated into a bestial and beastly nature! I may begin, as Ovid did his Metamorphosis, in nova fert animus, […] must show you a Monster, yea many Monsters in one; a dog-man, a goat-man, a wolf-man, a fox-man, &c. 'Twere better to be a beast, then to be like a beast (so living, and so dying) 'twere better to be Balaam's Ass, then such an As. as Balaam himself was. But to set this degeneration and degradation of man by sin before you the more clearly and fully. I shall speak to these three heads.
This is not all; sin hath degraded man, 1and made him a beast; 'tis true, he hath the shape of a man, but alas! is degenerated into a beastial and beastly nature! I may begin, as Ovid did his Metamorphosis, in nova fert animus, 〈…〉 must shew you a Monster, yea many Monsters in one; a dog-man, a goat-man, a wolf-man, a soxman, &c. 'Twere better to be a beast, then to be like a beast (so living, and so dying) 'twere better to be Balaams Als, then such an As. as Balaam himself was. But to set this degeneration and degradation of man by sin before you the more clearly and fully. I shall speak to these three heads.
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Sin hath made man; 1 Like a Beast. 2 Like the worst of Beasts. 3 Worse then the Beasts.