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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Sin hath made man; 1 Like a Beast. 2 Like the worst of Beasts. 3 Worse then the Beasts.
1 1Sin hath made man like a Beast, yea not only like to, but a Beast: The Man of Sin, the great Antichrist, is called a Beast; and the great ones that Daniel saw in his Vision, are called Beasts; and sinners are ten or eleven times in Scripture called brutish; and what some men are, all would be, if left to themselves, if common or special, if restraining or renewing grace did not interpose and prevent.
1 1Sin hath made man like a Beast, yea not only like to, but a Beast: The Man of Sin, the great Antichrist, is called a Beast; and the great ones that Daniel saw in his Vision, are called Beasts; and sinners are ten or eleven times in Scripture called bruitish; and what some men are, all would be, if left to themselves, if common or special, if restraining or renewing grace did not interpose and prevent.
- 1Sinful man is 1 L•ke a beast.
Three things will evince this likeness.