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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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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.
2 Sinners are likened to dogs: I shall not run division in this, nor persecute the Metaphor in prosecuting the particulars, of which there was ⟨p. 59⟩something said a little before, but only to show, that though it were most usual with the Jews to call the Gentiles dogs, (and our Saviour speaks in their dialect and language, when he told the woman, that 'twas not meet to take the children's bread and cast it to dogs, Mat. 15.26.) yet 'tis a common name to sinners, whither Jews or Gentiles, to all without God and Christ, for without are dogs, Revel. 22.15.
2 Sinners are likened to dogs: I shall not run division in this, nor persecute the Metaphor in prosecuting the particulars, of which there was ⟨p. 59⟩something said a little before, but only to shew, that though it were most usual with the Jews to call the Gentiles dogs, (and our Saviour speaks in their dialect and language, when he told the woman, that 'twas not meet to take the childrens bread and cast it to dogs, Mat. 15.26.) yet 'tis a common name to sinners, whither Jews or Gentiles, to all without God and Christ, for without are dogs,