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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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Before I show what (and wherein) damnation is, and consequently the mischief and misery that sin hath thereby brought on man, I shall premise a few things which will make our passage smooth and easy. I say then:
Before I shew what (and wherein) damnation is, and consequently the mischief and misery that sin hath thereby brought on man, I shall premise a few things which will make our passage smooth and easie. I say then:
1 That God damns no man but for sin: Damnation is a punishment, Mat. 25.46. and all punishment supposeth guilt and transgression: God the judge of all the earth will do right, and he lays not on man more then is meet, that man may not enter into judgment with God, Job 34.23. or quarrel and find fault with him; which man would quickly do, if Gods judgment were not just, even sinners themselves being Judges▪ Death is but sins wages, Rom. 6.23. that which it hath merited; mans undoing, is but the fruit of his own doing; mans perdition is of himself, Hos. 13.9. His own wickedness correct• him, Jer. 2.19. and that not only in this life, but that to come, Mat. 7.23. and Mat. 25