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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.
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.
- 2A bottomless pit.
3 3Hell is called a Furnace of fire, and that's a terrible thing: Nebuchadnezzars Furnace was terrible, especially when heated seven times more than usually; yet hell is a worse Furnace of fire, Mat. 13.41, 42. They that do iniquity (that are sin-makers by trade) shall be cast into a Furnace of fire which shall not devour them, but torment them, and make them wail and gnash their teeth.
3 3Hell is called a Furnace of fire, and that's a terrible thing: Nebuchadnezars Furnace was terrible, especially when heated seven times more than usually; yet hell is a worse Furnace of fire, Mat. 13.41, 42. They that do iniquity (that are sin-makers by trade) shall be cast into a Furnace of fire which shall not devoure them, but torment them, and make them wail and gnash their teeth.
- 3A furnace of fire.