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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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1 1Sinful man is like the Beast in ignorance and stupidity, Psa. 73.22. So foolish was I and ignorant, as a beast before thee, Psa. 49.20. Man (though a man in honour) that understandeth not, is like the beast that perisheth, of no more value nor honour, though he sit at the upper end of the world, as the Antichristian Beast doth, Psa. 94.3. O ye brutish, when will ye understand? O ye sols, when will ye be wise? brutish and foolish are Synonymous and parallel expressions, as was hinted before; an heart void of understanding, is the heart of a beast, as is clear, Dan. 4.16. with 34.-36.
1 1Sinful man is like the Beast in ignorance and stupidity, Psa. 73.22. So foolish was I and ignorant, as a beast before thee, Psa. 49.20. Man (though a man in honor) that understandeth not, is like the beast that perisheth, of no more value nor honor, though he sit at the upper end of the world, as the Antichristian Beast doth, Psa. 94.3. O ye bruitish, when will ye understand? O ye sools, when will ye be wise? bruitish and foolish are Synonymous and parallel expressions, as was hinted before; an heart void of understanding, is the heart of a beast, as is clear, Dan. 4.16. with 34.-36.
- 1And that 1 In ignorance.