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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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As 1. Goats are very lascivious, wanton and lustful; sinners are so too, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eye, are the things they are taken with, 1 Joh. 2.16. To these they give up themselves, saith the Apostle, among whom we all had our conversation in the lusts of the flesh, Eph. 2.3, and served divers lusts, Tit. 3.3. Thus are they like Goats.
And 2. Goats are stinking beasts, a Goatish smell is a stinking smell, (Gorgonius Hircum) to smell of, or like to the Goat, is a very strong unsavoury and stinking sent; and in a resembling sense, the wicked are an abomination to the Lord, a very stink in his Nostrils.
3. Goats are very bold and adventurous beasts, they climb Rocks and Precipices to browse and feed on what they can get with hazard; and in this sinners are like them too in running hazards, and many dangerous adventures for a little, yea no satisfaction; they venture peace, conscience, life, soul and all, to get that which is not bread, Isa. 55.2.