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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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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. Man was once the object of his love and delight; when man came into the world in the likeness of God, God looked on him with delight, and was enamoured of this his Image; but sin (alas) hath made him the object of his wrath: Oh injurious sin!
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 enjoy'd, 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. Man was once the object of his love and delight; when man came into the world in the likeness of God, God lookt on him with delight, and was enamour'd of this his Image; but sin (alas) hath made him the object of his wrath: Oh injurious sin!
- 3From the love of God.