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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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6 6They must be not only without their hopes of heaven, but without heaven which they hoped for; to have parted with their hopes for possession, had been no loss, but gain; but to part with their hopes; and with heaven too, is a double ⟨p. 75⟩loss: Whatever shall be the Saints portion, they must go without it, and be no sharers in it in the least degree: And though perhaps (as some think) the wicked may be permitted to look into heaven, as Dives saw Lazarus in Abraham's bosom, yet it will be but to heighten the depth of their misery, by letting them see what they by their sin have deprived themselves of: To lose Heaven, is to lose a Kingdom and glory, more worth and glorious than all the Kingdoms of this world, and their several glories united in one; 'tis to part with Rest (Sabbatism) for so 'tis called: Sabbaths they cared not for while they lived, and Sabbatism, or rest, they will have none, when they die. They gloried in their shame in this world, and they shall have shame enough, but no glory in the world to come: The thoughts of their having been happy, though but in conceit, and that others are really happy, and for ever, but they excluded from any share in any happiness, 'twill cut them to the heart.
6 6They must be not only without their hopes of heaven, but without heaven which they hoped for; to have parted with their hopes for possession, had been no loss, but gain; but to part with their hopes; and with heaven too, is a double ⟨p. 75⟩loss: Whatever shall be the Saints portion, they must go without it, and be no sharers in it in the least degree: And though perhaps (as some think) the wicked may be permitted to look into heaven, as Dives saw Lazarus in Abrahams bosom, yet it will be but to heighten the depth of their misery, by letting them see what they by their sin have deprived themselves of: To lose Heaven, is to lose a Kingdome and glory, more worth and glorious than all the Kingdomes of this world, and their several glories united in one; 'tis to part with Rest (Sabbatisme) for so 'tis called: Sabbaths they cared not for while they lived, and Sabbatisme, or rest, they will have none, when they die. They gloried in their shame in this world, and they shall have shame enough, but no glory in the world to come: The thoughts of their having been happy, though but in conceit, and that others are really happy, and for ever, but they excluded from any share in any happiness, 'twill cut them to the heart.