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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1 Hell is called a prison: 1As heaven is set out by things taking and delectable, so hell is set out by what's distasteful and loathsome, among which a prison is one, and hell is called a prison, ⟨p. 82⟩Mat. 5.25. 1 Per. 3.19. Prisons, common Goals, are the worst places to live in ('tis a noisome pestilential air) but hell is worse than the worst of prisons.
1 Hell is called a prison: 1As heaven is set out by things taking and delectable, so hell is set out by what's distastful and loathsome, among which a prison is one, and hell is called a prison, ⟨p. 82⟩Mat. 5.25. 1 Per. 3.19. Prisons, common Goals, are the worst places to live in ('tis a noysome pestilential air) but hell is worse than the worst of prisons.
- 1'Tis called 1 A prison
2 2Hell is called the bottomless pit, Revel. 9.11. and elsewhere frequently: The Devil is the Angel of the bottomless pit; 'tis a pit into which sinners must fall, and be ever falling, for there's no bottom.
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