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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
2 Sin hath separated man from the life of God, 2not only from living unto God, and with God, but from living the life of God, viz. such a life as God lives, which is a life of holiness in perfection; and therefore 'tis said of sinners, that they are alienated from the life of God, Eph. 4.18. yea, and more, that they are dead in sins and trespasses, Eph. 2.1. So far from living, that they are dead so far from living to God, that they live against God; so far from living the life of God, that they live the life of Devils: 'Tis according to the Prince of the Power of the Air, i.e. the Devil, Eph. 1.2. Oh what an injury hath sin done in separating man from the Divine Life and Nature, and sinking him into the dregs and death of sin, viz. made him dead in sin!
- 2From the life of God.
3 Sin hath separated man from the love of God: 3I speak not now of what love and good will there is in God toward man, but of that love, and the actual communication thereof, which man once had and enjoyed, whereof sin hath not only deprived him, but made him the object of his wrath; for God is angry with the wicked every day, Psal. 7.11. and they are by nature the children of wrath, Eph. 2.3, 4 and therefore said not to be beloved, Rom. 9.25