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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. › What Damnation is.
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3 3They must suffer the loss of all their peace: 'Tis true•, the wicked here have no real and solid peace, for there is no peace to the wicked, saith my God, Isa. 48.22. and 57.21. but they have that which they call peace, and which is to them instead of peace, viz. security and stupidity, a seared and benumbed conscience, and because of this they think they are in peace; but when they come to hell, all this will be otherwise, Conscience that was seared as with a red h•t iron here, will feel the flames there, and startle at it: They that met with no trouble here, will be consumed with terrors there, Psal. 73.13. There are no seared consciences in hell, they are all tender and sensible there: Then will Conscience awake, and rouse up like a Lyon, or gnaw like a worm: That they shall no longer have the little ease of dissembling their pain, as they were wo•• to do here.
3 3They must suffer the loss of all their peace: 'Tis true•, the wicked here have no real and solid peace, for there is no peace to the wicked, saith my God, Isa. 48.22. and 57.21. but they have that which they call peace, and which is to them instead of peace, viz. security and stupidity, a seared and benum'd conscience, and because of this they think they are in peace; but when they come to hell, all this will be otherwise, Conscience that was sear'd as with a red h•t iron here, will feel the flames there, and startle at it: They that met with no trouble here, will be consumed with terrors there,