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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 Let us consider the thing it self, 2with its names; for as its name is, so is it: The most common and usual name of this punishment is Damnation, a dreadful word! who knows how much it means? 'twill make the stoutest heart to tremble, the most confident countenance to fall, the most daring courage to fail when they feel it: If his wrath be kindled but a little, 'tis terrible; how much more is it so, when it shall be wrath to the uttermost? for 'tis contrary to being saved to the utmost. More particularly 'tis called
2 Let us consider the thing it self, 2with its names; for as its name is, so is it: The most common and usual name of this punishment is Damnation, a dreadful word! who knows how much it means? 'twill make the stoutest heart to tremble, the most consident countenance to fall, the most daring courage to fail when they feel it: If his wrath be kindled but a little, 'tis terrible; how much more is it so, when it shall be wrath to the uttermost? for 'tis contrary to being saved to the utmost. More particularly 'tis called
- 2Hell is a state of damnation
1 Destruction (viz. 1moral destruction) not of mans being, but well being, 2 Pet. 2.12. they shall be taken, destroyed, and utterly perish: And 2 Thes. 1.8.9. they shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord. Alas! it had been better for them they had never been born, or if born, that they had never died; or if died, that they had never risen again, then to be thus destroyed; [Greek or Hebrew], as Hicrocles, to be banished from God, and the Divine Life, is the worst of deaths.