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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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5 They must part from, 5and suffer the loss of all good company; they shall no more have the company of one good man; in this world the wicked fare the better for Gods people being among them; and though they despise, and scoff at them, and think them not worthy to live, yet God himself assures us, that the world is not worthy of their converse, they are too good for ⟨p. 74⟩this world, Hebr. 11.38. yea, though the wicked count good and holy mens lives to be folly and madness, yet when they come to die, they would be glad with all their hearts, that their souls might be in as good a condition as theirs after death. Balaam that wicked wretch, who loved the wages of, and lived in unrighteousness all his days, yet could wish to die the death of the righteous, and that his latter end (Hebr. his afterward, or after state) might be as theirs, Numb. 23.10. Then they would be glad to take hold of the shirt of a Jew (one that is so inwardly, Rom. 2.28, 29.) and say, we will go with you, for God is with you; but they will find a great Gulf fixed between them, Heaven will not hold any of the wicked, nor shall Hell have any of the righteous to hold. The wicked shall not stand in judgment, nor sinners in the Congregation of the righteous, Psa. 1.5. Here below they may through in, the bad among the good, but hereafter God will find them out, and separate them; and though now, many a sinner may separate from the world to join with Saints, yet then God will separate them from Saints, and join with sinners and devils, they shall be excommunicated from the society of Saints, and be delivered up to Satan (the Executioner of Gods wrath and vengeance) and shall have no company but the damned Crew.
5 They must part from, 5and suffer the loss of all good company; they shall no more have the company of one good man; in this world the wicked fare the better for Gods people being among them; and though they despise, and scoff at them, and think them not worthy to live, yet God himself assures us, that the world is not worthy of their converse, they are too good for