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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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4 4Sin hath separated man from communion with God; God and man kept company, while man and holiness kept company, but when that and ⟨p. 62⟩man parted; then God and man parted (the redintegration of any is upon a new account) they could not walk together, because of this disagreement, Amos 3.3. When man left walking in the light of holiness, and walked in the darkness of sin, fellowship ceased, 1 John 1.6, 7. 'Tis true, there is reconciliation and recovery by Jesus Christ, but sin did what in it lay to cut man off from all communion with God for ever; Oh this spiteful and pernicious sin!
- 4From communion.
5 5Sin separated man from the Covenant-relation wherein he stood unto God; so that God had no obligation upon him to own him, or look after him, to have any thing to do with him, but ruin him; and what sin did at first, it doth (if not repented of, and pardoned) to this day; and therefore sinners called Loammi, not my people, which is worse then not to be a people, 1 Pet. 2.10. and they are without God, Promise and Covenant, Eph. 2.12. Man can claim nothing of God upon any right or Plea of his own, having sinned; and therefore are said also to be without hope, viz. in themselves: Oh what a separation hath sin made! in robbing man of God, it robs him of all things, for all things are ours, but so far as God is ours,