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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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2 2Sinful man is like the beast in sensuality, as if he were only belly-wise, and had no soul to mind, or a soul only to mind his body; he placeth his happiness in sensual and corporal enjoyments and satisfactions; and in this sense some understand that saying, Eccl. 3.18. I said in my heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that (oh that) God would manifest them, ••d that they might see (what they are, viz.) that they are but beasts: Solomon useth not a gentle or courtly complement, but calls them (in downright ⟨p. 55⟩and plain English) Beasts; they live and die like beasts, make no provision for Eternity, mind not the world to come, which is the world of eternal good or evil.
2 2Sinful man is like the beast in sensuality, as if he were only belly-wise, and had no soul to mind, or a soul only to mind his body; he placeth his happinesse in sensual and corporal enjoyments and satisfactions; and in this sense some understand that saying, Eccl. 3.18. I said in my heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that (oh that) God would manifest them, ••d that they might see (what they are, viz.) that they are but beasts: Solomon useth not a gentle or courtly complement, but calls them (in downright ⟨p. 55⟩and plain English) Beasts; they live and die like beasts, make no provision for Eternity, mind not the world to come, which is the world of eternal good or evil.
- 2In sensuality.